The Christian Doctrine of Creation Ex Nihilo is not supported by the KCA.

In his last remarks, Con said: “Creatio ex nihilo (CXN) states that God, a being that transends nature, created all from nothing.” Creatio Ex Nihilo says nothing about God transcending nature. It is Latin for Creation from Nothing. Anything else that Con has added is nothing more that creative liberty taken on his part. The KCA is an argument that states the universe was caused. Because all causation requires a material cause, CXN is not supported by any causal argument. The burden of proof lies on Con to prove that such an alternate for of causation is plausible enough to support CXN and ipso facto, KCA as support of it. Con has yet to do this. P1) All things are causally brought into being from pre-existing things P2) The universe was causally brought into being C1) The universe was brought into being, from pre-existing stuff Creation Ex Nihilo is the theory that suggests God (efficient cause) created The Universe (formal cause) from absolutely NOTHING (NO MATERIAL CAUSE). William Lane Craig, a notorious Christian Apologist says:“I agree with your premiss 1. A causal event requires an agent to actualize an event (or an object), and the potentiality of the event to occur. Moreover, I also agree with your second premiss 2. "Nothingness" contains no potentiality, or else it would be "something.’” 2)Read more: http://www.reasonablefaith.org... (The spelling of “premiss” was his choosing) It is taught in Christian doctrine that God is Omnipotent, or all powerful. That God possesses all energies and potentialities and for Him nothing is impossible. However, even if this is true, If God can be rationally understood, he is subject to certain logical contingencies. God cannot make a weight so heavy, even he cannot lift it? Right? The same follows with power and potentiality. Power, no matter how great, is made manifest only through an object or entity upon which it can be exerted. Take my examples above pertaining to homeruns and black-eyes. Even if God is all-powerful, his omnipotence becomes impotent without having something upon which to exert His power. “Nothing” lacks the potential to be anything. There is nothing about “nothing-ness” that has the ability to be anything, let alone an ENTIRE UNIVERSE. Given what I have already shown as the only form of causality which occurs in the 3 form model, Creation Ex Nihilo cannot be supported by the KCA. In Thermodynamics , The Law of conservation of energy states : 3) the total energy of an isolated system is constant; energy can be transformed from one form to another, but cannot be created or destroyed. Everything in our universe, even matter, is constructed of energy on the most rudimentary level. To posit that energy or matter is or could be arbitrarily manifested from nothing if something is powerful enough to do it, is nonsensical and logically incoherent statement. It is now perfectly clear that if one is to posit a God, they have been effectively reduced to 2 possible options pertaining to how It brought about the Universe. Either… 1) God acted upon “X” and created the universe from it. 2) God acted upon Himself, and created the universe from Him. If my opponent wishes to win favor over your judgment, he/she must prove this NEW form of causation, which does not require a material cause, is worthy of consideration at all. It has been shown to be philosophically, scientifically, and logically incoherent. Because it is not self-evident, the burden of proof lies squarely on the individual supporting or making this claim. If this cannot be done, my opponent cannot successfully link the KCA to the Creation Ex Nihilo doctrine. References 1) http://www.reasonablefaith.org... 2) http://en.wikipedia.org...