Sunday, June 5, 2011

Craig's Kalam Cosmological Argument, Pt. 1.

I am cross-posting this from some discussions elsewhere. I'll go back and edit it for quality later.

Steve - Thanks for the response. You are right that the link doesn't debunk KCA.

It does make my point that the argument is so spread out and nebulous that it can't be answered in the time of a debate. It also can't be adequately presented in the time of a debate without getting to the most superficial objections.

There are some real holes with the KCA though.

I will be more than happy to explain them. I'm not going to lie. It has been a while since I've gone over the KCA, so I'm going to be drawing from three sources:

The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy's page on the Cosmological Argument (this is a peer reviewed source)
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmological-argument/#4.6

Chris Hallquist's review of Reasonable Faith on Infidels.org
http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/chris_hallquist/faith.html#ch3

And a book that isn't online titled Philosophy and Physics by Sir James Jeans. I'll posts links to the book on Amazon and to his bio.

http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Philosophy-Sir-James-Jeans/dp/0486241173

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hopwood_Jeans

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