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Discussion on the Kalam Argument

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

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The Causal Principle Is Metaphysical and Not Metaphysical

Hume said that it is an absurd proposition to think that anything could come into existence on cause. I don't believe that, but what you do think is that something can come into existence without a cause, namely a universe. So why is there an argument for why we should think that the scope of the causal principle is metaphysical and not metaphysic? Yes. That's a really good point because it's not a physical principle. It underlies Western philosophy all the way back to the Prius of Cratix. But this is a metaphysical principle that being doesn't come from non-being; therefore nothing can come intoexistence from nothing.

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