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Kalam Cosmological Argument

Kalam Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God is a famous, but flawed argument attempting to persuade people that God exists.

[Key Takeaway]

the first premise of the argument is that everything that beings to exist has a cause, but that has been demonstrated in theory and experimental evidence to be a false idea. At the human level of existence this appears to be true, but at the quantum level particles are appearing and disappearing without cause all the time. The argument persuades based on intuition that a typical person would have, but simply is not true at the quantum level.

The form of the argument​

  1. Whatever begins to exist has a cause.
  2. The universe began to exist.
  3. Therefore, the universe has a cause.
  4. That cause is God.

Note that the first argument is carefully stated