Criticisms of the Kalam cosmological argument
- The assumption that an uncaused beginning of all things is impossible.
- The Causal Principle cannot be extrapolated to the universe from inductive experience (eg. the phenomenon of quantum indeterminacy , where, at the subatomic level, the causal principle appears to break down).
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