Kalam
cosmological Argument
Introduction
The Kalam cosmological argument is an argument from the existence of the universe pointing to the existence of God. The existence of the universe, such arguments claim, stands in need of explanation. The only adequate explanation, the arguments suggest, is that it was created by God. What distinguishes the Kalam cosmological argument is that it rests on the idea that the universe has a beginning in time. According to this argument, it is precisely because the universe is thought to have a beginning in time that its existence is thought to stand in need of an explanation.
(1) Everything that has a beginning of its existence has a cause of its existence.
(2) The universe has a beginning of its existence.
(3) The universe has a cause of its existence. (If the universe has a cause of its existence then that cause is God and therefore God exists).
Introductory Videos
Essential Books
A great introductory book on apologetics and recommended for beginners. This book introduces you to the philosophical and scientific evidence for the Kalam Cosmological argument, how to state and defend it. This book also comes with a study guide.
Level: Beginner
If you have read On Guard, then this is the level up and may feel quite a leap in terms of depth. Here you will get a fuller, more in depth case and defense of the arguments you learnt about in On Guard. This book also comes with a study guide
Level: Intermediate
This is a level up from the Reasonable Faith book and is very much aimed at scholars and serious students of natural theology. If you want to get into the serious arguments for defending Christianity, this is the place to look, but be prepared for a complex read, even if you’re quite comfortable on the Kalam material so far.
Level: Advanced
Video Lessons
Taken from Defenders, William Lane Craig's class on the Kalam in six lessons.
Key talks
Questions & responses to the Kalam
If Subatomic Particles Come Into Being Uncaused, Why Not The Universe?
Do Virtual Particles Prove Something Can Come from Nothing? (William Lane Craig)
It Is Not “Special Pleading” to Say God Is Without A Cause
Things That Come Into Being Have A Cause
Does God Solve the Absurdity of Something Coming from Nothing?
Does the Cosmological Argument Beg the Question?
Doesn’t Quantum physics prove something came from nothing?
It’s Crazy to Believe Something can Come from Nothing Uncaused!
Defending the First Premise of the Kalam Cosmological Argument (William Lane Craig)
The Absurdity of Denying the First Premise of the Kalam Cosmological Argument | Peter Kreeft
The Absurdity of Denying the First Premise of the Kalam Cosmological Argument | William Lane Craig
The Law of Causality and the Cosmological Argument (RC Sproul)
Does Quantum Physics Prove Uncaused Events Could Happen?
The Pseudo-Science of Richard Dawkins
The Atheist War Against Logic and Philosophy
Does Causality Only Apply to Everything In the Universe But Not Of the Universe?
Uniformity of Nature (Christianity vs Atheism) (Jason Lisle, PhD)
Quantum Physics Proves Something Can Come From Nothing? – William Lane Craig, PhD
Kai Nielsen on Nothing Doing Something
Jonathan Edwards on Causality (Joe Rigney)
Science is Impossible without Causality | Frank Turek, PhD
Can Nothing Do Something? – William Lane Craig, PhD
Do Miracles Violate the Laws of Nature?
The Law of Causality and Miracles – John Lennox, PhD
Why Nothing Can’t Do Anything – It’s Nothing, Stupid! (Kalam Cosmological Argument)
Fallacy of Composition and Kalam Cosmological Argument | William Lane Craig, PhD
Why Think Whatever Begins to Exist Has a Cause?
Is the Causal Principle Incompatible with the Kalam Cosmological Argument?
Does Quantum Physics Provide an Exception to Premise 1 of the Kalam Cosmological Argument?
Is It Possible for an Infinite Number of Past Events to Exist?
Did the Universe “Pop” Into Existence?
What is the Best Evidence that God Created the Universe?
Can We Say the Universe Began to Exist?
Does the Multiverse Avoid a Cosmic Beginning?
Does the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics Point to a Cosmic Beginning?
Has the Big Bang Been Scientifically Proven?
Two Ways Something Can Be Without a Beginning or End
If Subatomic Particles Come Into Being Uncaused, Why Not The Universe?
Is Genesis 1:1 the Creation of Earth or the Universe?
Can We Say the Universe Began to Exist?
How Does Increasing Entropy Relate to the Cosmological Argument and the Multiverse?
Does Dr. Craig Misrepresent The BGV Theorem? = No
The Kalam Cosmological Argument vs The Multiverse
Borde Guth Vilenkin Theorem: Scientific Evidence for the Beginning of the Universe
Is the Big Bang Finely-Tuned? (Theist vs Atheist) (Phil Fernandes vs Dan Barker)
Evidence for the Big Bang (Robert Newman)
The Beginning of the Universe (Scientific Evidence) (Michael Strauss)
First Law of Thermodynamics vs Kalam Cosmological Argument
There is No Evidence for a Multiverse (Theist vs Atheist) (Dinesh D’Souza vs Dan Barker)
The Big Bang and the Beginning of the Universe – Frank Turek, PhD
Big Bang Cosmology and the Existence of God (Peter Kreeft)
Biblical Cosmology (Hugh Ross, PhD)
Radiation Afterglow – Evidence for the Beginning of the Universe
Second Law of Thermodynamics – The Beginning of the Universe
Expansion of the Universe – Evidence for Universe’s Beginning
The Cyclic Ekpyrotic Universe Fails
Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity – The Universe’s Beginning
Robert Jastrow Describes the Big Bang
Problems of the Quantum Vacuum Fluctuation Model (Stephen M. Barr, PhD)
Robert Jastrow on God and the Big Bang
Stephen Hawking on the Big Bang and the Beginning of the Universe and Time
The Borde Guth Vilenkin Theorem – Alexander Vilenkin, PhD
It’s Impossible to Cross Infinity (JP Moreland, PhD)
The Steady State Theory Fails – William Lane Craig, PhD
Big Bang and Space-Time Model – William Lane Craig, PhD
The Oscillating Universe Theory Fails – William Lane Craig, PhD
Quantum Gravity Theory has Problems – William Lane Craig, PhD
Quantum Vacuum Fluctuation Model has Problems – William Lane Craig, PhD
Chaotic Inflationary Theory Fails – William Lane Craig, PhD
Can You Traverse an Actual Infinite Number of Things? William Lane Craig, PhD
String Theory, M-Theory and Cyclic Ekpyrotic Theory – William Lane Craig, PhD
The Multiverse – John Warwick Montgomery, PhD
Did Matter Exist Before the Singularity? WL Craig Responds to Christopher Hitchens
Modern Science and the Kalam Cosmological Argument – William Lane Craig, PhD
Cosmic Background Radiation – Hugh Ross, PhD
Is the Singularity An Actually Infinite? – William Lane Craig, PhD
Sequential Infinity in the Trinity? – William Lane Craig, PhD
The Bible and the Big Bang – Jeff Zweerink, PhD
Is A-Theory of Time Incompatible with the Kalam Cosmological Argument? – William Lane Craig, PhD
The Borde Guth Vilenkin Theorem and the Cosmological Argument
Atheists Take Alexander Vilenkin Out of Context
Alexander Vilenkin Says William Lane Craig is Right About BGV Theorem
Does the Universe Have an Explanation? – William Lane Craig, PhD
Richard Dawkins: Literally Nothing is Something? (amusement)
The Universe Began to Exist – Stephen C. Meyer, PhD
Why Must the Cause of the Universe Be Personal and Not Impersonal?
Why Must the Cause of the Universe Transcend Time?
How Do You Know the Cause of the Universe is God?
Is the First Cause of the Universe God? Is this Cause Personal or Impersonal?
How Do We Get from A Transcendent Cause to A Personal Cause?
If an actual infinite doesn’t exist, then how can God exist?
Isn’t it unscientific to posit God at the beginning of the universe?
Is It Fair to Use Uncountable Infinites for the Cosmological Argument?
Is the Cosmological Argument Guilty of Composition?
The Cosmological, Ontological, and Teleological Arguments aim is to point to the God
Is the Cosmological Argument Guilty of Equivocation?
Arguing God from First Cause? (William Lane Craig)
The Kalam Cosmological Argument and Sentient Causes
Does The Kalam Cosmological Argument Equivocate?
Quantum Mechanics vs The Kalam Cosmological Argument
Doesn’t the Law of Causality make a First Cause Nonsense?
A-Theory of Time vs Actual Infinite Past Events
God’s Thoughts and Actual Infinites
Kalam Cosmological Argument, First Law of Thermodynamics, and Equivocation – William Lane Craig
The Kalam Cosmological Argument and Molecuar Information
Does the Kalam Cosmological Argument Commit the Fallacy of Division?
Aren’t Atoms Emitting Photons Prove an Event Without a Cause? And What About Radioactive Nuceluses?
Can We Have a ‘Now’ or a ‘Today’ if Time is Actually Infinite?
A and B Theory of Time and the Kalam Cosmological Argument (William Lane Craig)
If Time Continues Forever, Is That An Actual Infinite Amount of Time?
Richard Swinburne and William Lane Craig | An Exchange on the Kalam
Dr. Alexander Pruss Questions Dr. Craig
Why Only One Creator and Not Many?
The Kalam Argument Leads to an Unembodied Mind
If an Actual Infinite Is Impossible, In What Way Is God Infinite?
Three Reasons Why the Cause of the Universe Must Be Personal
More...
No, The Big Bang Does Not Disprove God
Professor Mackie and the Kalam Cosmological Argument
Graham Oppy on the Kalam Cosmological Argument
God and the Initial Cosmological Singularity: A Reply to Quentin Smith
The Origin and Creation of the Universe: A Response to Adolf Grünbaum
A Response to Grünbaum on Creation and Big Bang Cosmology
Creation and Big Bang Cosmology
The Caused Beginning of the Universe: A Response to Quentin Smith
A Swift and Simple Refutation of the Kalam Cosmological Argument?
The Ultimate Question of Origins: God and the Beginning of the Universe
Misunderstandings About God and the Big Bang
Science and the A-Theory of Time
Tim Maudlin’s Interesting View of Time Part 1
Tim Maudlin’s Interesting View of Time Part 2
Science and the A-Theory of Time
Questions about A-Theory of Time and Abstract Objects
Recent Responses to the Kalam Argument
Is the Kalam Cosmological Argument Circular?
Philosophical Concerns With the Kalam Cosmological Argument
Questions on the End of Time, Determinism, and String Theory
Why Think Whatever Begins to Exist Has a Cause?
A Rabbi Looks at the Kalam Argument
Questions about the Kalam Cosmological Argument
More on Something From Nothing
Questions on Matter, Energy, and Nothingness
Questions on Cosmology (part 1)
Questions on Cosmology (part 2)
Even More Questions on the Kalam
Short – The Kalam Cosmological Argument [Beginner]
Short – Frank Tipler: The Singularity [Beginner]
10 Really Bad Youtube Objections to the Kalam Cosmological Argument [Beginner]
History of the Big Bang – Simon Singh, PhD [Beginner]
New Evidence the universe began to exist Dr Rob Koons (Second Premise focus) [Intermediate]
Modern Physics, the Beginning and Creation – Stephen M. Barr, PhD [Intermediate]
Physical Infinities – A Substitute for God (Peter Bussey, PhD) [Intermediate]
“Cosmology and Cosmologists within the ‘Does God Exist’ Question” – James Sinclair [Advanced]
“The Kalam Cosmological Argument” with Q&A | William Lane Craig at Georgia Tech [Advanced]
The Kalam Cosmological Argument with Q&A | University of Birmingham, UK [Advanced]
Did the Universe have a Beginning? Alexander Vilenkin [Advanced]