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Q&A on the Kalam Cosmological Argument

In the Arena: The Debates and Lectures of William Lane Craig

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The Fallacy of Composition

Students mustn't confuse inductive reasoning with reasoning by composition. Hume and Russell actually both reject the claim that any being can be necessary, assuming that God's existence is logically necessary or the contradiction for God not to exist. The column cosmological argument does not infer that this cause of the universe is metaphysically necessary. So it doesn't take a stand on this issue simply just that such a being exists.

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