An avalanche of questions, Bill, and we want to put you in the hot seat and get you

to answer some of these questions that we've gotten.

Always check the question of the week segment on reasonablefaith.org because your question

may be addressed there is some form of it, so be sure and check, and here are some questions

that we've received.

Dear Dr. Craig in the book, how to prove there is a God, Dr. Mortimer Adler makes an interesting

comment that relates to the second premise of the Kalam cosmological argument.

He says, quote, if you choose that the world began, you already assumed the existence of

God.

That begs the question.

You would be assuming that God exists, page 11 of his book.

If one assumes, that's the end of quote.

If one assumes the temporality of the universe, as the second premise of the Kalam cosmological

argument does, is one committed to begging the question or circular reasoning, Dave in

the United States.

Well, no Dave, I don't think so at all.

There's nothing about the premise that the universe began to exist that presupposes

the existence of God.

On the contrary, it, I think, implies the existence of God when conjoined with the first

premise that whatever begins to exist has a cause.

But there are many people who believe that the universe began to exist, who do not believe

in God.

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