Dr Craig, Dr. Danny Faulkner writes for answers in Genesis. While back he talked about your use of the Kalam cosmological argument and utilizing the

Big Bang as an evidence for God.

And I want to be careful about that, Kevin, because I think he does misstate it. He asks if one can use

the Big Bang to prove God's existence and that's not my claim. My claim is that the

Big Bang provides evidence for the second premise of the Kalam cosmological

argument that the universe began to exist.

So I'm not saying the Big Bang proves God. I'm seeing the Big Bang

provides good evidence for thinking that the universe began to exist. You know he

brings up Robert Jastro, 1978 book, God and the Astronomers.

That book had quite an impact. I think you may have quoted from it yourself.

Yes.

A few times. Do you think that Dr. Faulkner's description of what the

Big Bang is all about is accurate? Yes, I think that he gives a very nice synopsis of the standard cosmological model.

Then he goes to yours, he says, Craig's Kalam cosmological argument,

one of the major proponents of using the Big Bang to prove God's existence is the Christian philosopher

William Lane Craig. Craig uses his updating of the Kalam cosmological argument

from medieval Islamic philosophy, which in turn was a variation of Aristotle's

argument for a prime mover.

I will simplify the argument here.

Now is he right on that that it was Aristotle's prime mover?

Can you trace it back for him?

Well I think they're rather different. The Aristotle's argument is for a first the first, Aristotle believed in the eternally of the universe that it never began to exist.

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