Faith and Philosophy

Volume 32, Issue 2, April 2015

“Uncaused Beginnings” Revisited

William Lane Craig’s “Reflections on ‘Uncaused Beginnings” is a sustained critique of my “Uncaused Beginnings.” I argue that the central arguments of my essay survive that critique unscathed. When we make a fair and accurate comparison of naturalist and theist claims about global causal reality, we see that considerations about causation and the shape of causal reality do not decide between naturalism and theism. Moreover, the Edwards/Prior/Craig objection does not rule out the view that there is an initial global causal state involving none but contingently existing entities.