William Lane Craig offers two philosophical arguments for the conclusion that the universe began to exist. To be compelling, these arguments must not only be sound—we must also have reasons to believe that they are sound. I determine that these arguments do not provide such reasons to many individuals. The arguments ultimately rely on supposedly intuitively obvious absurdities. However, if one ...

William Lane Craig insists that I am wrong in reducing God’s moral goodness to his beneficent aim of drawing all people himself. For Craig, goodness, best conceived terms righteousness, must also include retributive justice toward the wicked, who deserve punishment they receive. My response is Craig’s argument rests on two assumptions about value, neither which, argue, Christian theists have go...

Many believe that objective morality requires a theistic foundation. I maintain that there are sui generis objective ethical facts that do not reduce to natural or supernatural facts. On my view, objective morality does not require an external foundation of any kind. After explaining my view, I defend it against a variety of objections posed by William Wainwright, William Lane Craig, and J. P. ...

The kalam cosmological argument has received a renewed attention in philosophical literature after several presentations and defenses of its versions offered by William Lane Craig. crux the debate about Craig?s priori arguments favor had mainly to do with analysis concept actual infinity implications for possibility that universe an infinite past. While point counter-intuitiveness existence suc...

ABSTRACT In the late 1970s big bang model of cosmology was widely accepted and interpreted as implying universe had a beginning. At end that decade William Lane Craig revived an argument for God known Kalam Cosmological Argument (KCA) based on this scientific consensus. Furthermore, he linked to supposed biblical concept creation ex nihilo found in Genesis. I shall critique Craig's position exp...

William Lane Craig’s defence of the kalam cosmological argument rests heavily on two philosophical arguments against a past-eternal universe. In this article I take issue with one of these arguments, what I call the ‘Hilbert’s Hotel Argument’ – namely, that the metaphysical absurdity of an actually infinite number of things existing precludes the possibility of a beginningless past. After expla...

william lane craig, american recent philosopher has tried with appealing to cantor’s latest ideas and also theory of “big bang” in physics; present a new explanation of cosmological argument. his explanation which is called “kalam- cosmological argument” is going to describe moslem philosopher’s argument in this aspect, like kendi and ghazali. he makes efforts to refuse the doctrine of eternali...

The Christian Church has traditionally held that the inspiration of Holy Scripture is verbal, plenary, and confluent. But such an affirmation may seem to be incoherent. For if Scripture is the product of both divine and human free agency, then it seems impossible that God should have sufficient control of the various authors of Scripture so as to produce a Word that is verbally and plenarily hi...