Kalam: A swift argument from origins to first cause?

Religious Studies 33 (2):167-179 (1997)
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Abstract

This paper contains a critique of the 'Kalam' Cosmological Argument for a first cause of the universe as a whole. I argue that one of its major premises (that the universe began to exist) cannot be justified a priori from the paradoxes of the actual infinite, nor by appeal to current cosmological theories. But those who wish to infer from cosmology to the non-existence of a first cause also fail to make their case. I conclude with some morals for the project of natural theology

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Craig’s Kalam Cosmology.Graham Oppy - 2009 - Philo 12 (2):200-216.

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