CHALLENGING COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENTS
The idea of an infinite set of things (an "actual infinity") produces absurd conclusions. William Lane Craig imagines a library with an infinite number of red books and an infinite number of black books. Each black book is a copy of a red book, except for its cover. This means that there are as many red books as black books. It also means there are as many red-and-black books as there are red books - which is contradictory paradox. Craig concludes that actual infinities can't exist in reality.
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I like to think of Kalam as the Cinderella of cosmological arguments. Her premise that the universe had a beginning seemed so silly for centuries and it had no evidence in its favour except the Genesis story in the Bible. Then, along comes the Big Bang Theory, like a Fairy Godmother, and turns the Kalam argument into a princess.
I suppose that means William Lane Craig is like Buttons - he's made a career out of 'rediscovering' the KCA. |