The Problem of Causality in the Kalām Argument

The two most common objections raised against the Kalām version of the Cosmological Argument fail to undermine its central premises and therefore God likely exists.

The Kalām Argument for the existence of God is based upon two premises that have been often challenged and which are still debated to this day:

(1) that everything that begins to exist has a cause, and,

(2) that the universe began to exist. 

I’d like to briefly examine one philosophical objection to each of these premises and the responses given by supp…