Debunking the Kalam Cosmological Argument of William Lane Craig

We hope this is the definitive take down of the Kalam Cosmological Argument. We show how it is contradictory and that the physics being used to support it doesn't do so. We also had this video reviewed by Marcus, one of the Cosmology Advisers on Physics Forums to make sure there were no errors, his words
"I think it is excellent.Your narrator comes across as really smart and personable....I don't see any glaring errors, really amazingly good
it's charming, intelligent, visually engaging, sporadically really beautiful like the brief cut of the Hubble telescope and the volcano etc. Well-made!"

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Science & Technology

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• William Lane Craig
• theism
• Christianity
• atheism
• Islam
• god
• Kalam
• Adam Deen
• Frank Turek
• Hamza Andreas Tzortzis
• Michale Corey
• Alan Guth
• Alex Vilenkin
• Roger Penrose
• cosmology
• Stephen Hawking
• loop quantum gravity
• quantum cosmology
• inflation

[skydivephil]

In order for the phrase 'Everything that begins to exist" to be meaningfully different than "Everything that exists has a cause" we need to have good evidence that there are things that don't begin to exist. Well what evidence is there? They assume god has this property because they've defined it that way, hence the distinction is simply wordplay.

[foneyop]

Excellent video.  Kalam Body Slam!(tm) Thanks for taking the time to make it. Is that lighted painting or an LCD screen behind you? thanks.

[skydivephil]

@foneyop The picture behind is made from somthing called a "duratran", its basically a transparent photo (taken from Spitzer Space telescope) backlit with Led lights.

[skydivephil]

Part of the the case made by WLC in establishing Premise 2 of the KAlam is that infinities don't exist in reality , hence the past cannot be infinite and so premise 2 is true. So the Kalam as presented by WLC does say there is no infinity.

[loveofphysics]

Excellent video, well thought, produced and sourced. I learned quite a bit about cosmology from this video.

[bary1234]

Yet does this clip bury the stupid superstitious argument? Hell no. Zombie-cultists and mudslimes and other cultists keep on spewing their nonsense, all the way to the grave.

Only way we can end this bullshit is by protecting children from indoctrination in to superstition. If religious people cant target defenceless children anymore, organised superstition dies in one generation. And this world would be so much happier and brighter for it.

[bushonomics]

Very very well done. I still hold that Craig's primary problem is that, ultimately, he always ends up with some variation of "my holy book is better than yours."

[iaov]

Excellent vid. Thank you.

[skydivephil]

@xknowledgeisfreex I think the phrase outside of space and time is a phrase thats very convenient for theists but n reality is simply gibberish, know one really has any clue what it really means.

[xknowledgeisfreex]

@mawa89g

"How can something come into existence uncaused without time in which it comes into existence and without space it can be in?"

How can God exist without a space to be in and without time within which he acts?