Tuesday, September 8, 2026
Craig on finitism and presentism
The kalām cosmological argument for God’s
existence holds that the universe must have had a beginning. (Not all versions of the cosmological
argument make this claim. For example,
the versions I defend in my book Five
Proofs of the Existence of God do not make it.) William Lane Craig’s influential presentation
of the argument defends the claim in several ways, one of which is by arguing
that a beginningless universe would amount to an actual infinite, and that an
actual infinite is impossible. That
judgment, in turn, is supported by appeal to examples like the Hilbert’s Hotel
thought experiment, in which the idea of a hotel with an actually infinite
number of rooms and guests yields a variety of bizarre consequences.
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