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Objeciones Kalam de Bolsillo
Objeciones Kalam de Bolsillo
Primera premisa: Todo lo que tiene un inicio en su existencia, tiene una causa.
William Lane Craig has trotted out his old Kalam Cosmological Argument once again in the link
below on the ABC.
The four most common ways I've seen where this fails are as follows.
Fail1) In creating the premise that every "thing" that begins to exist has a cause, this indicates that
this is a subset of all things that exist. The missing component is everything that exists which didn't
begin to exist. When you enquire of the proponent of the Kalam, what is included in this missing
subset, they reply "God". This then changes the first premise to,
This turns the entire argument into a logical fallacy "special pleading" where the ultimate
conclusion is preset in the first premise.
Fail2) Another way this argument fails, is the precedent on which the first premise is derived.
Where do we get the notion that things have causes? Observation! Everything we observe to
"begin", actually has a naturalistic cause. This leaves us with the new premise,
Fail3) A third way it fails is as follows, nothing actually begins to exist but is simply a
reconfiguration of existing subatomic particles and energy. When we say something is beginning
to exist, we are simply relabeling a new configuration. This leaves us with the new premise,
P1) Every new configuration of existing matter and energy has a naturalistic cause.
S1) We don't know if or how the universe "began" to exist or have any verifiable evidence for the
existence of a God or gods.
C1) Cosmological arguments for the existence of God fail!
Fail5) Another way this argument can fail is looking at the latest ideas from Lawrence Krauss in "A
universe from nothing" which indicates that nothing is inherently unstable and it is potentially
inevitable that something would come from nothing (without the need for a supernatural entity).