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Craig on finitism and presentism

The kalām cosmological argument for God's existence holds that the universe must have had a beginning. 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.

Craig on finitism and presentism

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The kalām cosmological argument for God's existence holds that the universe must have had a beginning.

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...

(Not all versions of the cosmological argument make this claim.

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The kalām cosmological argument for God's existence holds that the universe must have had a beginning. 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. (Not all versions of the cosmological argument make this claim.

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