Evaluate The Kalam Argument

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The Kalam Argument

The Kalam argument is a form of cosmological argument. It claims that everything which begins to exist must have a prior cause for it to have come into existence. Much like our ancestors are the cause of us, so too is everything else in our universe. The universe then must have a cause since there was a time in which it too started to exist. Due to our scientific explanation being limited, the cause must be God.

Simplified, the Kalam argument can be summarised into four key points which I will individually analyse and evaluate;

1 Everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence. 2 The universe began to exist. 3 Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence. 4 Since no scientific explanation (in …show more content…
However those in favour of the Kalam argument seem to ignore the idea that whatever may exist outside of our observable universe may have its very own nature to whatever created this universe would belong to.

Even if it could in some way lead to the image of a God that many theists have, which one would be the right God, could there not be many Gods that all took part in shaping our universe? In conclusion I feel that the Kalam Cosmological Argument really doesn’t get us any closer to proving that a god, especially any religions particular god, had anything to do with the formation of the universe. The argument seems to take a number of statements which are for the most part are understood to be true, applies a set of unreasonable assumptions and faith assertions, none of which can really be demonstrated to be true or
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