Welcome to the Council of Trend Podcast, a production of Catholic Answers.

Hey everyone, in today's Rebuttal, I'm going to look at the YouTube channel SkyDive

Phil, and they have a whole documentary that criticizes the Kalam Cosmological argument.

Now this argument was popularized by the Protestant philosopher and theologian William Lane

Craig, and it gets discussed a lot because it's deceptively simple.

It goes like this, whatever begins to exist has a cause for its existence.

The universe began to exist.

Therefore, the universe has a cause for its existence.

Now, this isn't an argument for God strictly, you have to do an analysis of what the cause

of the universe would be, and if it's the cause of all space-time matter and energy,

you would do an analysis showing it has divine properties.

So in this video, this atheist who goes by the name SkyDive Phil, he actually does

like a whole documentary where he interviews scientists and philosophers who critique

the Kalam argument.

It's got really slick production values.

It looks great, technically speaking.

But ultimately, I was disappointed because people like William Lane Craig, they have provided

answers to the objections that are raised in this documentary.

And a lot of those just simply aren't included.

Many of them can be found in the black well companion to natural theology.

In that book, Craig and a co-author, Jamesson Clare, they've written one of the best defenses

of the Kalam argument in print.

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