Bill occasionally I look around to see if there are any recent responses to the Kalam cosmological argument. I found two on YouTube, so I have

some video clips for you to check out. You may be a little disappointed, Bill. I don't think there's anything that new in these but we'll look at them

The first set of clips is from science communicator Grayson Hawk this video has over 2,500 views. He claims he can fix the

Kalam so that it's more accurate, so let's check out his first clip.

Being a science Communicator on YouTube who talks to a lot of theist apologists,

I very often hear the Kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God.

Except that it's not exactly an argument for the existence of God

popularized by William Lane Craig, very very famous Christian apologist, covered him on the channel before.

One, all things that begin to exist have a cause.

Two, the universe began to exist.

Three, the conclusion, therefore the universe... The universe had a cause which the observant viewer may notice is actually not an argument for the existence of God

Now there's a lot of you know introduction an argument for the existence of God.

Now there's a lot of, you know, introduction of some more assumptions,

a lot of mental gymnastics to go from the universe had a cause

to that cause was a personal all knowing all loving all good God but yeah that's

what the Christian apologists are trying to do the primary Kalam argument just

concludes with that conclusion that the universe did have a cause.

Well, so he calls the conceptual analysis of the cause mental gymnastics, Bill.

Yes, what he does is he presents half of the argument and then says it doesn't

justify the final conclusion. Well, that is of course because it's incomplete as he presents it. If anything, he

should accuse me of oversimplifying a much more complex argument which involves a derivation of the properties of the first cause

that showed that this cause must be a first, uncoused, beginning last, time less, change less, space less, immaterial, enormously powerful,

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