Everything hitherto existent had a cause that was insistent,
And the immense and incalculable universe once became,
So they conclude, with no surprise, a cause gave the universe size,
But here what many will apprise, implies a further claim.
‘God loves you,’ they include, ‘and at heaven you ought to aim’ -
Preparing for a Christian shame.
Ah, not for ages have I read such faulty premises in a thread,
And ignorance they do spread by setting fallacy aflame.
Surely you would like to learn – from the argument of our concern
What support we can discern – discern the line to blame.
To William Lane Craig is owed the argument’s acclaim.
That clumsy hack I will defame.
For what we require to see is some such reason to agree,
With Craig – though vague is the argument’s opening claim;
‘It should be clear’, was all he said, thinking that would hold its stead
‘Intuitive in your head’, and that was all he would proclaim –
‘Intuitively obvious’, is all that supports the opening claim; -
That is all, and pretty lame.
Presently we must recognize; that things we often visualize,
Like tigers, tables, rabbits, or similar things that we could name,
At one time began to exist; and so for others that do persist,
And so for others we could list, listing whatever once became,
But the universe is not a ‘thing’ – that’s the point that they disclaim; -
Logically a set is just a frame.
It is a point that gives me pause, to think all ‘things’ must have a cause,
When the universe is not a ‘thing’, but the ‘set’ of all we can name;
The Room of rooms may have no source, no start or end on its course,
No beginning to endorse without Craig’s error there to blame.
The error that the ‘set’ obeys the rules of what it does frame.
An error is here to blame.
And so from here we must acquit, the error we cannot permit,
And wonder why God’s creation ex nihilo is a better fit.
‘It’s not,’ I say, with no lament, it’s on a par for our consent;
Not more deserving of assent, but comparable all the same –
Material cause, or efficient cause, lacking all the same.
And this is where I end the game.