The Kalam Cosmological Argument | Take This: A Skeptical Blog by TakeThat Accounts

1. Everything that begins to exist has a cause.
2. The universe began to exist.
3. Therefore the universe had a cause.

(P.S. the cause is God.)

This argument is disarmingly simple. It is intuitive, seemingly reasonable, and a person doesn’t have to go against the entire scientific establishment to make it. However, it is only simple out of necessity, for the differences between our understanding of causality and the conditions at the beginning of the universe will soon make themselves apparent...

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The Moral Argument | Take This: A Skeptical Blog by TakeThat Accounts

The moral argument for God’s existence, as formulated by professional philosopher William Lane Craig goes like this:

1. If God does not exist, objective moral values and duties do not exist.
2. Objective moral values and duties do exist
3. Therefore God exists

It is important to ask exactly how objective moral values exist if God exists. People who make this argument usually subscribe to a divine command theory of ethics, which asserts that what is moral is determined by what God commands, and that to be moral is to follow his commands...

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