Some atheists think they can refute the kalām argument by asking, “If everything needs a cause, then what caused God?”193 The argument, however, never says that everything requires a cause. It only claims that everything that begins to exist requires a cause for its existence. Since we have good reasons to believe that the universe began to exist (Big Bang cosmology, impossibility of infinite days before today, lack of maximum entropy), then the universe requires an explanation for why it exists. God, on the other hand, never began to exist because he is eternal (he created time itself), and
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