The Cosmological Argument

Imagine a long chain of events, like one person telling a secret to another, who tells another. If you follow the secret back, someone had to be the first person to think of it! This idea says the universe is a big chain of causes. Since things do not usually start themselves, there must have been a First Cause or Great Beginner who started everything. By looking at the now, we can feel connected to the very first moment of time.

Follow the chain backward. Someone told the first secret. Something struck the first match. The universe had a First Moment. What lit it?

The Kalam Cosmological Argument: Whatever begins to exist has a cause; the universe began to exist; therefore, the universe has a cause. Relies on impossibility of actual infinite past. If the Big Bang is the beginning of spacetime, the cause must be spaceless and timeless. Leads to profound questions about the Prime Mover.

SOUND: The first loud boom of a firework.

SMELL: A freshly struck match: the scent of beginning.

TASTE: The very first bite of a food you have never tried.

TOUCH: The spark from static electricity.

SIGHT: A single candle lighting up a dark room.

BODY: Starting to run after standing still: the body becoming the first domino.

Music: Fourth of July by Sufjan Stevens

Music: Ancient Voices by Survivor Theme

Part of Existence & Being — PHILOSOPHY — Education Revelation