
Discussion on the Kalam Argument
In the Arena: The Debates and Lectures of William Lane Craig
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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