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What is the Kalam Cosmological Argument?

The One Minute Apologist with William Lane Craig

Time : 00:01:14

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Transcript

Bobby Conway: Talk to us about the kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God.

Dr. Craig: The kalam cosmological argument is an argument that can be simply formulated. Premise one: Whatever begins to exist has a cause. Things don’t come into being from nothing. Two: The universe began to exist. There’s good philosophical and scientific evidence that the universe is not eternal in the past, but had a beginning. And from that, it follows, three: Therefore, a cause of the universe exists.

And then you do a conceptual analysis of what it is to be a cause of space and time, matter, and energy, and I think you’re able to show that a beginningless, uncaused, timeless, spaceless, immaterial, enormously powerful, personal creator of the universe exists, which is the core concept of God.