The Kalam Argument is a sound argument for the existence of God

The formulated argument I will be defending will be as presented bellow. P.1 Everything that begins to exist has a cause. P.2 The universe began to exist. C.1 Therefore, the universe had a cause. P.3 The cause must be God. C.2 Therefore God exists. P.1 Everything that begins to exist has a cause. This premise is affirmed in just about every aspect of our life. Experience and reasoning tells us that occurrence requires cause. That is a necessary and evident logical fact as demonstrated by the principle of causation. In order for something to happen there must be a reason as to why that happened. Nothing can occur without anything leading up to its occurrence. No observation has shown to us an occurrence without a cause. It thus follows that nothing can begin to exist without a cause either. The principle of causality is quite evident in nature. Nowhere in the world can something occur without previous causes leading up to that occurrence. We live in a world of cause and effect. It is an extremely evident fact in creatio ex-materia that whatever begins to exist has a cause. We have no reason to believe it is any different for creatio ex-nihilo. Furthermore, if we deny the causal nature of existence there is nothing to prevent things from just popping into existence at any time or place. We can therefore conclude that for everything that begins to exist there is a cause of existence. As conceded, we have yet to observe things coming into existence from actual nothingness. We have yet to observe creatio ex-nihilo, even quantum fluctuations--an argument my opponent is sure to mention--does not occur in actual nothingess as empty space is not actually nothing[. http://universe-review.ca...], but that in no way concludes that we have no evidence for this statement. Through observation of nature and life as well as pure reasoning we can conclude the high likeliness that everything that begins to exist has a cause. As said, we live in a world of cause and effect. Facts require explanation. Chemical reactions require cause. Existence requires cause. Every aspect of life we see cause and effect. We know for a fact that things coming into existence from pre-existing matter have a cause. There is no reason to believe that matter itself coming into existence has no cause. That is contrary to all reason and experience. P.2 The universe began to exist. Science I. The Second law of thermodynamics affirms this fact. The universe is running out of usable energy which leads us to the fact that it is not eternal. The amount of energy is always decreasing as we do work. When work is done that work results in heat but not all is turned into energy. If the universe were eternal we would have run out if energy by now. If usable energy is always decreasing than we can affirm that there is a supply of it and that that supply is limited. It is obvious that any limited supply would run out in an infinite amount of time. Supply would be finite and time infinite. It necessarily follows that supply would be used up, and thus the universe began to exist some billions of years ago. . http://www.extremeprayer.com... II. Furthermore, as in accordance with the big bang model, astronomer Edwin Hubble discovered that the universe expanding in all directions at the same and constant velocity. As time progresses the universe is getting larger and thus 1 million years ago the universe was smaller than it was now. One million years before that it was even smaller and if we go back in time, smaller and smaller until it was at a point of density. That point was the big-bang in which the universe began. . http://www.infidels.org... Philosophy It can be shown through pure reason alone that an actual infinite cannot exist. This can be demonstrated with the Hilbert's hotel paradox which was made by German mathematician David Hilbert. Consider a hypothetical hotel with countably infinitely many rooms, all of which are occupied – that is to say every room contains a guest. One might be tempted to think that the hotel would not be able to accommodate any newly arriving guests, as would be the case with a finite number of rooms. Suppose a new guest arrives and wishes to be accommodated in the hotel. Because the hotel has infinitely many rooms, we can move the guest occupying room 1 to room 2, the guest occupying room 2 to room 3 and so on, and fit the newcomer into room 1. By repeating this procedure, it is possible to make room for any finite number of new guests. It is also possible to accommodate a countably infinite number of new guests: just move the person occupying room 1 to room 2, the guest occupying room 2 to room 4, and in general room n to room 2n, and all the odd-numbered rooms will be free for the new guests. . http://en.wikipedia.org...'s_paradox_of_the_Grand_Hotel There is more to say but I would like to see what part of the argument my opponent will disagree with first. C.1 Therefore, the universe had a cause. The logic of the KCA posits that if p is true than q must be true, with the resulting conclusion that p is true therefore q is true. As I have shown P.1 and P.2 to be correct the conclusion must be true. P.3 The cause must be God. This is quite an easy premise too affirm. The cause of the universe must necessarily be uncaused and personal. Since there is nothing prior to the cause of the universe it can't be explained scientifically. Moreover the first cause would transcend time and matter. As an infinite cannot exist he would create time. Lastly only an incredibly powerful being could cause the existence of the universe ex-nihilo. There is no other possible first cause other than a mind possessing being. I do not predict my opponent will attempt to refute this premise. I hand it over to the con.