Kalam Argument: Ed Miller

Kalam Argument: Ed Miller

1. 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.

2. 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!

3. 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.