Can Everything Come to Be Without a Cause?

Dialogue 33 (2):313 (1994)
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Lane Craig, for example, asserts, that it is "intuitively obvious." 1 This approach is not promising since this principle is not self evident. A principle p is self evident if and only if everybody who understands p believes p, but many philosophers and cosmologists not only believe it possible.

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