Acknowledgments Foreword Introduction Paul Copan (Palm Beach Atlantic University, USA) Part 1. Whatever Begins to Exist Has a Cause 1. A New Critique of Theological Misinterpretations of Physical Cosmology Adolf Grünbaum (University of Pittsburgh, USA) 2. Prof. Grünbaum on the 'Normalcy of Nothingness' in the Leibnizian and Kalam Cosmological Arguments William Lane Craig (Talbot School of Theology, USA) Part 2. The Universe Began to Exist Deductive Arguments 2.1 Argument based on Impossibility of Existence of an Actual Infinite 3. Must Metaphysical Time Have a Beginning? Wes Morriston (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) 4.
Craig on the Actual Infinite Wes Morriston (University of Colorado Boulder, USA) 5. On the Beginning of Time: A Reply to Wes Morriston Concerning the Existence of Actual Infinities Andrew Loke (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 6. No Beginning, No Explanation: The Kalam Cosmological Argument and the Principle of Sufficient Reason David S. Oderberg (University of Reading, UK) 7. Excerpt from Arguing about Gods Graham Oppy (Monash University, Australia) 8. Graham Oppy on the Kalam Cosmological Argument William Lane Craig (Talbot School of Theology, USA) 9. Heartbreak at Hilbert's Hotel Landon Hedrick (University of Nebraska - Lincoln, USA) 10. No Heartbreak at Hilbert's Hotel: A Reply to Landon Hedrick Andrew Loke (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) 11.
Finitism and the Beginning of the Universe Stephen Puryear (NC State University, USA) 2.2 Argument based on the Impossibility of Formation of an Actual Infinite by Successive Addition 12. Traversal of the Infinite, the 'Big Bang,' and the Kalam Cosmological Argument David S. Oderberg (University of Reading, UK) 13. The Tristram Shandy Paradox: A Response to David S. Oderberg Graham Oppy (Monash University, Australia) 14. The Tristram Shandy Paradox: A Reply to Graham Oppy David S. Oderberg (University of Reading, UK) 15.
Methuselah's Diary and the Finitude of the Past Ben Waters 16. The Grim Reaper Kalam Argument: From Temporal and Causal Finitism to God Robert C. Koons (University of Texas at Austin, USA) 17. Endless Future: A Persistent Thorn in the Kalam Cosmological Argument Yishai Cohen (Syracuse University, USA) 18. The Kalam Cosmological Argument William Lane Craig (Talbot School of Theology, USA) Permissions Index.