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17. Januar 2013, 01:18:48

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Thema: the kalam cosmological argument

I've been reading about the kalam cosmological argument. It's based on these three statements:

1) Whatever begins to exist has a cause
2) The universe had a beginning
3) Therefore, the universe has a cause

There appears to be a weakness in the second statement because the argument was formulated almost a thousand years ago... a thousand years ago there was no scientific evidence to support a big bang theory. Philosophy and math were used to reason that the universe must have had a beginning. For instance, they used math and logic to prove that an infinite number of past events lead to logical absurdities. And that's just one example... different ideas were examined, the least likely ones were shaved away (occam's razor) and the last one standing was "The universe had a beginning".

This argument is mostly supported by theists... in other words, it's "arguable". *<(:op