Doesn't the Law of Causality make a First Cause Nonsense?

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Channel: drcraigvideos · 2011 · Education

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http://drcraigvideos.blogspot.com - Since the rules of causality (or the causal principle) only makes sense in context of time (which didn't exist before creation}, thus isn't the first cause therefore nonsensical? Can cause and effect happen simultaneously? Dr. William Lane Craig deals with these questions. 

This is part of the "Defending the Cosmological Argument" series: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=916E17EE70E98A68

To hear the Kalam Cosmological Argument in more detail: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7DF074B2FA080791

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