Philosophy / Unit 3 Philosophy 0107 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Kalam Argument
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The idea
The kalam argument repairs the premise: whatever begins to exist has a cause; the universe began to exist; therefore the universe has a cause.
In practice
God, on this version, never began—so the objection "what caused God?" no longer applies by the argument's own terms.
Where people slip
The work shifts to premise two: did the universe begin? The debate moves into cosmology.
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