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Kalam Argument: Ed Miller
- Stage 1
- 1. There exists a world ( all of space and time)
- 2. It could not be the cause of itself. (this is because it would have to exist before itself to create itself and this is impossible).
- 3. it could not come from nothing.
- 4. It could not be an effect in an infinite series of cause and effects.
- 5. Therefore it must be caused by something outside space and time.
- 1. There exists a world ( all of space and time)
- Stage 2
- This argument can be formulated asa categorical syllogism.
- 1. all contingent beings depend for their existence on some uncause being.
- 2. the cosos is contingent.
- 3. the cosmos depends for its existence on some uncaused being.
- NOTE: this uncaused being, just as Lane Craig states does not have to be God!
- This argument can be formulated asa categorical syllogism.
- Miller is stating that an infinite regression is impossible, and that the cosmos has a beginning.
- It is self contradictory to say that the world has existed for an infinite amount of time.
- It is self contradictory to say that the world has existed for an infinite amount of time.