![]() ![]() In the field of natural theology, that division of philosophy of religion committed to offering philosophical arguments for God’s existence, there are many different types, or families, of arguments. “All men by nature desire to know” as Aristotle said, and on the topic of the origination of the physical world, it would surely be nice to know just a little! In the next few posts, we will be searching for good answers to the questions above and seeing how those answers point to the existence of a transcendent, personal creator of the cosmos. There are undoubtedly fewer more important questions to ponder than those regarding the universe’s ultimate origins. We have all thought about such queries before and rightly so. Where did the universe come from? Has it been here forever or not? What would the implications be if the universe had a beginning? These questions have left people scratching their heads from time immemorial. “t is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize they wondered originally at the obvious difficulties, then advanced little by little and stated difficulties about the greater matters…about the phenomena of the moon and those of the sun, and about the stars, and about the genesis of the universe.” – Aristotle, Metaphysics I.II “In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.” – Genesis 1:1 ![]() ![]() ![]() The Kalam Cosmological Argument: Introduction and a Look at Premise One ![]()
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