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Saturday, October 11, 2008

The Kalam Cosmological Argument: for the existence of God

The Kalam Cosmologial Argument is this: the Universe had a beginning, and that beginning was caused by someone who was a person. The strength in this argument lies in the fact that it keeps the recipient thinking and engaged for he or she must make a decision at each of the three "forks" in the road. If that individual makes the most logical decision at that fork, he or she will end up with the conclusion that a supernatural being - outside of space and time caused the universe to come into being in the beginning of time.
One of the illustrations used today was the "Fast-N-Furious Freddy vs. Ron Race" illustration. If Freddy and Ron engaged in a car race, but Ron's start line went back for an infinite length backwards, he could not even begin the race let alone win the race. The POINT: Infinity cannot be crossed. Therefore, if the past is an infinite amount of time, we could have never reached the present moment. Therefore, the past must be a finite amount of time (i.e. a beginning in time).

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