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November 27, 2022 44 mins

Does quantum mechanics lend a escape hatch away from the cause of the universe? Just as the axe pre-existed in the form of iron and wood couldn't the universe have pre-existed in some form before the Big Bang? If everything must have a cause why must God be excluded? To answer these many other common objections to the Kalam Cosmological Argument Asher John of The Carpenter's Desk join us!

Links and citation:

  1. William Lane Craig, Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics 3rd Edition
  2. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (New York: Houghton-Mifflin, 2006), p. 77.)
  3. Andrew Loke, The Teleological and Kalam Cosmological Arguments Revisited https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-94403-2 (book, free legitimate download available)
  4. Andrew Loke, God and Ultimate Origins https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-319-57547-6
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Resources to begin learning Kalam Cosmological Argument and apologetics:

  1. Reasonable Faith: www.reasonablefaith.org
  2. William Lane Craig; On Guard (book)
  3. William Lane Craig; Reasonable Faith: Christian Truth and Apologetics 3rd Edition (book)
  4. Library database https://apologetics315.com/?s=kalam+cosmological+argument
  5. William Lane Craig, James Sinclair, Chapter 3: The Kalam Cosmological Argument (Pages: 101-201), Blackwell Companion to Natural Theology (chapter, book)
  6. EQUIP, a self-learn apologetics platform by Reasonable Faith https://knowwhyyoubelieve.org/
  7. Kalam Cosmological Argument Part 1 (animated video; English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CulBuMCLg0
  8. Kalam Cosmological Argument Part 2 (animated video; English) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vybNvc6mxMo
  9. The Carpenter's Desk https://www.youtube.com/@TheCarpentersDesk
  10. Ep #65- Making Sense Of 'CAUSE' And 'NOTHING' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNXRQQNae5M
  11. William Lane Craig and CosmicSkeptic Discuss The Kalam Cosmological Argument https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOfVBqGPwi0


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