Kalam
Whatever begins to exist has a cause. The universe began. Therefore it has a cause.
On a napkin
- 1Whatever begins to exist has a cause — not ‘everything has a cause.’ Things do not pop into living rooms.
- 2The universe began. An actually infinite past cannot be traversed (Hilbert’s Hotel). Expansion from a start agrees.
- 3Therefore the universe has a cause that is not itself part of the universe.
- 4That cause is spaceless, timeless, immaterial, powerful, and personal.
Say this
I’m not saying everything has a cause. I’m saying whatever begins to exist does. If the universe began, it needs a cause that is not a piece of the universe. Christians have a name for that.
“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.”