The Kalam Cosmological Argument Is a Sound Argument for God's Existance

I. Everything That Has a Beginning of Its Existance Has a Cause of Its Existance Yes, but nothing happens without a cause. A door cannot open unless someone physically opens it or the wind blows it open. A ball will not roll down a hill unless someone pushes it. Also, a ball cannot roll down the hill unless someone first places it onto the hill in the first place. So I have two questions for my opponent. How did the material to create the big bang come into existance? And, what made it explode at that point, after being there for eternity? As for this "energy", "A fundumental principle of creation that Athiests have never learned is that in order for matter to be brought into being, its creator must already be in existance. An existance of some type must already be in existance in order to give existance to a thing which has no existance. When there's nothing in existance, nothing can be brought into existance. .. Therefore, it is right to conclude that God existed before any other thing existed, and He therefore created all matter and everything else that exists. "[1] Where did this energy come from? How did it come into being? Energy cannot be created or destoryed, as the First Law of Thermodynamics proves. I will cover this more in Contention II, since it is more relevant there, and that is where my rebuttals stem from. II. The Universe Has a Beginning of Its Existance "Using the conservation of energy to argue against the beginning of the universe reveals confusion about cosmology to begin with. Scientists can extrapolate back to the beginning of the big bang–which is the moment when both space and time came into existence, along with all of the material world (Craig and Copan, cited below, 222ff). So we know scientifically that there was a moment when there was no matter at all. It was created, not out of other matter, but out of nothing. Here is the key to note: it is once the universe came into existence that the laws of nature came into effect–before the universe, there was nothing. "[2] "Quite simply, entropy is a measure of the unavailability of some energy to do work. So the less energy that exists to do work, the more entropy there is in the closed system. In addition, the correlation between entropy and disorder is such that where entropy is increased, disorder is proportionally increased. In regard to high-temperature energy systems (should the system be isolated), heat energy would eventually spread out over time throughout the system it inhabits. Once the dispersion is complete (or equilibrium is reached) then the energy begins to minimize until the energy 'runs out. '"[3] The first paragraph extends my originial contention I. The second paragraph is an extension to my unanswered argument about how the second law of thermodynamics says that an infinite universe is impossible because there is a finite, unincreasing amount of usuable energy, with is constantly decreasing until "heat death". So, the universe could not have lasted forever and had a beginning to its existance. In addition to this, more philosophical arguments, "8. An actual infinite cannot exist. 9. An infinite temporal regress of events is an actual infinite. 10. Therefore, an infinite temporal regress of events can not exist. "[4] As shown, there can not be an infinte number of moments before today because today would be unreachable. Point 8 stands because of my unanswered contentions. III. Why the KCA Is Wrong - The "B" Theory "First, the B Theory of time greatly misconstrues some biblical ideas, one example being the doctrine of creation ex nihilo. For the B theorist, the universe beginning to exist simply means that it has a starting point, just like a yard stick has a first inch. {10} The problem is that on this view There is in the actual world no state of affairs of God existing alone without the space-time universe. God never really brings the universe into being; as a whole it co-exists timelessly with Him. {11} So while the universe depends on God, the idea of creation ex nihilo is severely stripped of meaning since the universe always timelessly exists with God. That is, in some sense, God and space-time seem to be equally necessary in their existence. "[5] Another problem with the B-theory has to do with the philosophical question of infinite time I mentioned above. In addition, I fail to see how 61 philosophy experts in a poll really means a lot on how much the B-theory is accepted. IV. Why the KCA Is Wrong - Iterating to Infinity But time is not infinite. Sorry, maybe I am misinterpreting this quote, but you are the one arguing that the universe is infinite. V. Final Conclusions I have proven the KCA. Thank you Microsuck. I will have great arguments out for the final round. Sources: [1]:. http://www.tencommandments.org... [2]:. http://jwwartick.com... [3]:. http://sguthrie.net... [4]:. http://www.bsu.edu... [5]: . http://www.probe.org...