Cosmological

• issues with the cosmological argument


  Is the first cause necessary?

  Yes - infinite regress could be possible, or the first cause could be scientific (quantum fluctuations)

  No - William Lane Craig, infinity is incoherent, there cant be infinite past events and because of physics we know time cant go back forever
• Issues with the Cosmological Argument


  'Everything has a cause' is not an analytic truth

  Yes - in quantum mechanics, sub-atomic particles may move without a cause

  No - Newtons 1st law means everything must have a cause, and Ockham's razor means it is easier to believe that everything has a cause
• William Lane Craig on infinity


  WLC thinks infinity is metaphysically absurd as it creates mathematical contradictions, and that infinity is a concept and not something that exists in reality

  Modern physics have found that the universe has an absolute beginning - the big bang

  Craig believes the first cause must

  • be uncaused and cant have infinite regress
  • be timeless because it created time
  • be immaterial because it created all material
  • must be personal to have free will to be the first uncaused cause