Richard Gale: “The Kalam Cosmological Argument Isn’t Taken Seriously”

“Some defenders of the Kalam Argument supplement their conceptually-based argument against the universe having had an infinite past existence with contingent facts from modern Big Bang cosmology that holds there to be a point singularity at some past time, which they then gratuitously interpret as the point in time when the universe came into existence. Big Bang-based cosmological argument is an example of the God-of-the-gaps cosmological argument, since it brings in God when science is not yet able to explain the cause of some phenomenon but in principle can do so. For this reason, along with its dubious interpretation of modern cosmology, it has not been taken seriously by philosophers of religion and will not be considered further.”

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