Kalam Cosmological Argument and Fallacy of Composition @firstcauseargument

Uploaded June 2012 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

Some skeptics and atheists have tried to refute the Kalam Cosmological Argument with the following rebuttal: "The first premise is based upon the fallacy of composition. It fallaciously infers that because everything in the universe has a cause, therefore the whole universe has a cause."

William Lane Craig responds to this so-called refutation.

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