Kalam Cosmological Argument - Part 3 - William Lane Craig

COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT by William Lane Craig

1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause.

2. The universe began to exist.

2.1 First Philosophical Argument

2.11 An actually infinite number of things cannot exist.

2.12 A beginningless series of past events involves an actually infinite
number of things.

2.13 Therefore, a beginningless series of past events cannot exist.

2.2 Second Philosophical Argument

2.11 An actually infinite collection of things cannot be formed by
successive addition.

2.12 The series of past events is a collection of things formed by
successive addition.

2.13 Therefore, The series of past events cannot be actually infinite.

2.3 First Scientific Confirmation

2.4 Second Scientific Confirmation

3. Therefore, the universe has a cause.

4. If the universe has a cause, it is uncaused, beginningless, changeless, immaterial, timeless, spaceless, unimaginably powerful, and personal.

4.1 The cause is uncaused.

4.2 The cause is beginningless.

4.3 The cause is changeless.

4.4 The cause is immaterial.

4.5 The cause is timeless.

4.6 The cause is spaceless.

4.7 The cause is unimaginably powerful

4.8 The cause is personal.

5. Therefore, a personal Creator of the universe exists, who is uncaused, beginningless, changeless, immaterial, timeless, spaceless, and unimaginably powerful.

Playlist: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=54765A57944CEDDB

Defending the Cosmological Argument (quick clips to rebuttals to typical refutations of KCA): http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=916E17EE70E98A68

Link of Dr. Craig's videos: http://drcraigvideos.blogspot.com

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[daddyleon]

how can you be sure future time is not possibly infinite?

[Intellectual4God]

what is temporal becoming? i didnt understand what he meant when mentioning that concept

And does the B theory hold a view on whether the future is finite, potential, or actual? But i do already understand it claims that time is illusory to begin with and constant and depending on where you are at in time as to what humans would call what they see as the present....so that means according to B the future is an Actual infinite or finite correct? cant be potential since the events already there