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The Kalam Cosmological Argument
Popular-level apologetics article presenting a kalam argument for a beginning and cause of the universe.
- Author
- William Lane Craig
- Publisher
- Reasonable Faith
- Tradition
- Christian apologetics
- Accessed
- 2026-06-16
Citation
William Lane Craig, “The Kalam Cosmological Argument,” Reasonable Faith, accessed June 16, 2026.
Where this source is used
- Who created God?The cosmological arguments do not claim that everything needs a cause. They claim that dependent things do, and ask what could end the chain.
- Contingency and creationScience explains one state of the world by an earlier one. It cannot say why there is anything to study, and a self-existent ground answers that better than a brute fact.