Kalam bringing it home!

What a wonderful weekend we had up here in Michigan!  Yesterday was pretty fantastic and today is no different.  Well over the past two blogs we've been discussing the Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God.  Today I want to bring that argument home with that last bit which is the Kalam Argument.  This seeks to show that the Universe has a cause.  We'll see how all of these relate in just a moment but first the Kalam argument.







The basic form of the Kalam argument is this:

1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause

2. The universe began to exist

∴  The universe has a cause


Now we have the basic form of the argument.  As you can see the only premis that can be refuted with any plausibility is the second.  The universe may not have began to exist.  However, if you recall my previous blog an eternal universe is impossible because an "Actual Infinity" (the kind involved if the universe had no beginning or end) is impossible.  So if the universe was created then who created it?  


If you remember back to my first blog, if the universe is not necessary by nature then it must exist by some external cause.  That external cause must be grater than the universe to have caused it.  Therefore the creator of the universe must be God, the only being great enough and timeless to have caused the universe to come into existence.  


A question you may be asking yourself is: If the universe cannot be infinit then how can God be?  The answer to that is really quite simple.  The universe exists in time, and in time there cannot be an actual infinity because an infinit regression of temporal events cannot exist (previous blog).  God on the other-hand exists outside of time.  Therefore God can be infinit (eternal) without causing this logical conundrum.

This has been quite a bit of fun to write about and think on.  If any of you have any question please leave your comment.  I would love to engage in scholarly debate.  Next time we're going to look at another proof for God.  But this time the heart and soul will be engaged more so than the mind.




^"He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.  And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together."



Colossians 1:15-17