Din ve Felsefe Araştırmaları

Yazarlar: Enis DOKO

Konular:Felsefe

Anahtar Kelimeler:Huduth Argument,Kalam Cosmological Argument,Causal Principle,Existence of God.

Özet: One of the most discussed theistic arguments is the Huduth argument, known as the Kalam cosmological argument in West, which tries to establish existence of God from the beginning of the universe. After the success of the Big Bang Model, atheist philosophers began to prefer to criticize the causal premise of the argument rather than rejecting the origin of the universe. The causality premise argues that everything that has a beginning in time must have a cause. In this paper, we will analyze the causality premise of the Kalam Cosmological Argument. First, we will present and evaluate the three arguments given in favor of the causality premise by the most prominent defender of the argument William Lane Craig. In the following sections, we will present two arguments in favor of the causality premise. In the first argument, we will argue that denying the causality premise leads to radical skepticism. Assuming radical skepticism is absurd, we will argue that causality premise must be true. In the second argument, we will defend the claim that inference to the best explanation principle supports the proposition that the universe with a beginning must have a cause. We will first argue that if the beginning of the universe does not have a cause, then this phenomenon has no explanation. But inference to best explanation implies that we should prefer any explanation over no explanation, and since only type of explanation in favor of the beginning of the universe can be causal explanation, the universe must have a cause.

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