Premise 1: Everything that begins to exist has a cause outside of itself.
Premise 2: The universe began to exist.
Conclusion: The universe has a cause outside of itself; God.
Kalam’s Argument states that the universe began to exist because nothing just starts up, it has a beginning. The first premise reassures the fact that everything that begins doesn’t just “happen” or “come into existence” but it has a creator or beginner. The second premise says that whether it was 13 billion years ago or 45 billion years ago, the universe did at one point in time begin to exist. Therefore the conclusion states that some initiator or creator was necessary for the universe to come into initial existence and this initiator is God. For instance there are cookies in the kitchen and according to this theory, the cookies had a cause outside of themselves which caused their existence. The conclusion would be that your mom made the cookies, therefore putting them into existence in the kitchen.
Another theory that coincides with Kalam’s argument is the Big Bang Theory. The Big Bang Theory states that our universe sprang into existence as “singularity” around 13.7 billion years ago. If this theory is correct, Kalam’s argument would come into play saying that God was the “initiator” of the Big Bang Theory which created the universe.
