naa a22 4500 510753299 CHVBK 20180411083112.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20131201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11841-013-0362-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11841-013-0362-4 Bobier Christopher University of California, 85 Humanities Instructional Building, 92697-4555, Irvine, CA, USA aut God, Time and the Kalām Cosmological Argument [Elektronische Daten] [Christopher Bobier] The Kalām cosmological argument deploys the following causal principle: whatever begins to exist has a cause. Yet, under what conditions does something ‘begin to exist'? What does it mean to say that ‘X begins to exist at t'? William Lane Craig has offered and defended various accounts that seek to establish the necessary and sufficient conditions for when something ‘begins to exist.' I argue that all of the accounts that William Lane Craig has offered fail on the following grounds: either they entail that God has a cause or they render the Kalām argument unsound. Part of the problem is due to Craig's view of God's relationship to time: that God exists timelessly without creation and temporarily with creation. The conclusion is that Craig must abandon either the Kalām argument or his view of God's relationship to time; he cannot consistently hold both. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2013 Kalām argument nationallicence God nationallicence Time nationallicence William Lane Craig nationallicence Creation nationallicence Sophia Springer Netherlands 52/4(2013-12-01), 593-600 0038-1527 52:4<593 2013 52 11841 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-013-0362-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-013-0362-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Bobier Christopher University of California, 85 Humanities Instructional Building, 92697-4555, Irvine, CA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Sophia Springer Netherlands 52/4(2013-12-01), 593-600 0038-1527 52:4<593 2013 52 11841 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer