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kalam cosmological argument

The kalam cosmological argument and libertarian free will (Part 2)

May 20, 2013 by Randal

For part 1 click here. (Warning: if you haven’t read part 1 yet then you should or part 2 won’t make much sense.) After thinking about the issue a bit more I decided there is a simpler and more elegant way to demonstrate that there is no incompatibility between the first premise of the kalam […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: agent cause, efficient cause, Jonathan Pearce, kalam cosmological argument

The kalam cosmological argument and libertarian free will

May 19, 2013 by Randal

Jonathan Pearce made a comment in the discussion thread to “God or Godless and a Tippling Philosopher (Part 2)” which caught my attention. He said: “if you ascribe to the Kalam cosmological argument AND believe in free will, one refutes the other, since  free will implies ex nihilo creation (or a causal chain), so there […]

Filed Under: The Tentative Apologist Tagged With: agent causation, Jonathan Pearce, kalam cosmological argument

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