Reading Time: 4 minutes I love me a bit of the Kalam. Well, more accurately, a bit of criticism of the Kalam. What am I talking about? What is this Kalam? Well, the Kalam Cosmological Argument (KCA) is a short, three-lined syllogism that supposedly shows that the universe required a cause for its existence, and with some mental gerrymandering, […]
Kalam Cosmological Argument
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The Kalam Argument: infinite regress and more
Reading Time: 4 minutes A Christian responds to attacks on the Kalam Argument: your explanation requires another explanation, God has no “but what created God?” infinite regress, and more.
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The Kalam Argument: How does God create before time?
Reading Time: 4 minutes A Christian responds to attacks on the Kalam Argument: there was no First Cause before time, metaphysical truth claims aren’t well established, and Yahweh isn’t the only option for the Creator.
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Revisiting the Kalam Cosmological Argument
Reading Time: 3 minutes Let’s revisit the popular Christian apologetic, the Kalam argument, by investigating rebuttals to 11 objections. See if they’re effective, and see how much of my original argument remains.
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Carrier’s Anti-Kalam Book Endorsement!
Reading Time: 2 minutes Apologies for my absence – half term, and kids, and all that. Dr Richard Carrier was very generous indeed with his time and effort on my recent book The Resurrection: A Critical Examination of the Easter Story [UK]. I was very much indebted to him for his extensive blog entry on the piece. Within that article […]
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Lowder, Kalam and Creating the Universe from Nothing
Reading Time: 3 minutes Here is the foreword to my book Did God Create the Universe from Nothing: Countering William Lane Craig’s Kalam Cosmological Argument [UK] by Jeffery Jay Lowder. I think this is one of my tightest books, one that I am particularly proud of. Anyway, over to Lowder: There are many arguments for and against God’s existence. For almost […]
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Did God Create the Universe from Nothing?
Reading Time: 7 minutes This was the question I sought to answer in my book of the same name, with the subtitle of Countering William Lane Craig’s Kalam Cosmological Argument [UK]. I often think this is my best book. It’s tight, aimed at just the right level and audience in a successful manner (in terms of writing for an audience), […]
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Causality and Kalam
Reading Time: 4 minutes A YouTuber commenter hit me with this comment the other day in the context of me having written a book on the Kalam Cosmological Argument (Did God Create a Universe from Nothing) [UK]. Here is his comment, with my reactions interlinearly: The central thesis of your book against the Kalam, it seems to me, is […]
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Kalam Underwritten by Science?
Reading Time: 3 minutes I wrote a, what I obviously think is fantastic, book on the Kalam Cosmological Argument a few years back. The sort of reviews I have enjoyed getting go something like this: 5.0 out of 5 stars William Lane Craig really should read this book before he says anything else . . . Reviewed in the […]
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The 10-Second Argument for God (is Ridiculous)
Reading Time: 10 minutes Today, let me show you this guy’s rewarmed, regurgitated, and poorly-understood cosmological argument, and then why it doesn’t fly at all — and then, we’ll cruise way on ahead of him to wonder why he doesn’t bring up real evidence to support his claims.