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Kalam Cosmological Argument — everything that begins to exist has a cause

A Bunch Of Reasons Christianity Is True: special guest Jonathan McLatchie 01:10:56 – 01:12:27

McLatchie presents the Kalam Cosmological Argument as part of natural theology.

Argument form: (1) Everything that begins to exist has a cause; (2) The universe began to exist; (3) Therefore, the universe has a cause. Scientific evidence for premise 2: cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB) — residue of the Big Bang; second law of thermodynamics — the universe must have had a fully wound-up initial state; the recession of galaxies (Hubble expansion) indicating the universe had a beginning. The cause of the universe must be trans-temporal, spaceless, and immaterial — it brought time, space, and matter into being ex nihilo. Every worldview requires an unmoved mover that exists by necessity; the universe itself clearly does not qualify.

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