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Recent content by cutupmaster

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    Timeless Causation

    KCA = Kalam cosmological argument.
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    Kalam and Free Will

    Here's a parallel argument, which aims at the incomaptibility between libertarian free will and the KCA more generally. 1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence (where 'cause' is understood as the sufficent determining factor which brings the effect into existence)...
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    Kalam and Free Will

    The KCA is suppose to establish the existence of a being who freely chose to create the universe into existence. Below, I argue that such a "free" being is precluded if we accept the first premise of the KCA. 1. God created the universe by the act of freely willing it into existence (FWUE) -...
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    Timeless Causation

    This is an old objection, but I was wondering how a proponent of the KCA would answer it. It goes like this. If God caused the first state of the universe into existence, and therefore caused space and time to come into existence, then how could God's causing of the universe be "before" the...