The Success of the Kalam Cosmological Argument in Establishing an Existence in God

The Success of the Kalam Cosmological Argument in Establishing an Existence in God

The kalam cosmological argument is an argument from the existence of

the world or universe- to the existence of God, I think this is

effective because 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.

This is because it says that everything that has a beginning of its

existence has a cause of its existence and the universe has a

beginning of it’s existence; so it must have a cause to exist, and

this cause is God, therefore God exists.

The argument claims that everything that begins to exist has a cause

of its existence. In order to infer from this that the universe has a

cause of its existence the kalam cosmological argument must prove that

the past is finite, that the universe began to exist at a certain

point in time. The kalam cosmological argument states that, “The

universe has a beginning of its existence”. How do w...