A cosmological argument, in natural theology, is an argument which claims that the existence of God can be inferred from facts concerning causation, explanation, change, motion, contingency, dependency, or finitude with respect to the universe or some totality of objects..
The most prominent form of the argument, as defended by William Lane Craig, states the Kalam cosmological argument as the following syllogism: Everything that begins to exist has a cause.
The universe began to exist.
Therefore, the universe has a cause..
One of the earliest formulations of the Kalam cosmological argument in the Islamic philosophical tradition comes from Al-Ghazali, who writes: "Every being which begins has a cause for its beginning; now the world is a being which begins; therefore, it possesses a cause for its beginning.".
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, this cause is God: Everything that begins to exist has a cause for its existence..
A cosmological argument, in natural theology, is an argument which claims that the existence of God can be inferred from facts concerning causation, explanation, change, motion, contingency, dependency, or finitude with respect to the universe or some totality of objects..
The most prominent form of the argument, as defended by William Lane Craig
The Kalam cosmological argument is based on the concept of the prime-mover, introduced by Aristotle
According to the atheist philosopher Quentin Smith
• Arguments for the existence of God• Cosmogony• Natural
• Craig, William Lane (1999). "A swift and simple refutation of the Kalam cosmological argument
Study of Islamic doctrines
