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Nothingness, Origins, and Handling Objections

origin of the universe, questions, kalam cosmological argument, nothing,

Fantasy of the Gaps

36 Arguments for the Existence of God: Goldstein on the Cosmological Argument

I must confess that I don’t have the patience to read books like this nor do I find them entertaining. As a philosopher I want premises and supporting arguments without having to sift the philosophical wheat from the chaff of a popular fictional narrativ...

Some Reflections on the Sean Carroll Debate

Dr. Craig, Thank you so much again for the spirited and great debates that you participate together with cosmologists. I have to say that I find this arena of Cosmology and God to be a very good ground to keep polishing primarily because when science proves a...

aristotle, sean carroll, causation, kalam cosmological argument, debates, cosmology,

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 7): The Argument from Contingency Part 3

argument from contingency, leibnizian cosmological argument, cosmological argument,

Excursus on Natural Theology (Part 9): 1st Philosophical Argument for the Beginning of the Universe

beginning of the universe, kalam cosmological argument, philosophy,

Blackwell Companion Book

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Questions on time, Hilbert's Hotel, and the Resurrected Body

The Scientific Kalam Cosmological Argument

What is the Kalam Cosmological Argument? The word “kalam” is an Arabic word that denotes medieval Islamic theology. Muslim theologians, when Islam swept over Egypt in North Africa, absorbed the Christian thought that had been in those areas, like i...

Creation and Big Bang Cosmology

Several years ago popular science writer Robert Jastrow ruffled scientific feathers by asserting in his little book God and the Astronomers [(1978), pp. 113-116] that many cosmologists have a deep-seated aversion to the possible metaphysical and, indeed, theol...