Q&A: Denis Asks A Question About The Kalam Regarding Causality and Time

I’d appreciate your comments. 


 


1.     Whatever begins to exist has a cause;


 


2.     The universe began to exist;


 


Therefore:


 


3.     The universe has a cause.


 


The first premise, “Whatever begins to exist has a cause” is deduced from our observations of cause and effect within the universe, and the fact that cause must precede effect.


 


The cause of the universe beginning to exist had to prec...