Editing Kalam cosmological argument (section)

==Contemporary discourse==

According to [[Quentin Smith]]:<ref name="auto2"/>

:"A count of the articles in the philosophy journals shows that more articles have been published about Craig's defense of the Kalam argument than have been published about any other philosopher's contemporary formulation of an argument for God's existence."

The Kalam cosmological argument has received criticism from philosophers such as [[J. L. Mackie]], [[Graham Oppy]], [[Adolf Grunbaum]], [[Michael Martin (philosopher)|Michael Martin]], [[Quentin Smith]], Wes Morriston and Alex Malpass as well as physicists [[Sean M. Carroll]], [[Lawrence Krauss]] and [[Victor Stenger]].<ref>[[#SEP|Reichenbach, 2004]]: 4.1</ref>

Modern discourse encompasses the fields of both philosophy and science (e.g. the fields of [[quantum physics]] and [[cosmology]]), which Bruce Reichenbach summarises as:<ref>[[#SEP|Reichenbach, 2004]]: 5.6</ref>
:"... whether there needs to be a cause of the first natural existent, whether something like the universe can be finite and yet not have a beginning, and the nature of infinities and their connection with reality".

Since the temporal ordering of events is central, the Kalam argument also brings issues of the nature of time into the discussion.<ref>[[#SEP|Reichenbach, 2004]]: 2.</ref>