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 ===Kalam===
-Thomas Aquinas thought the beginning of the universe could not be understood by way of philosophical arguments but rather by divine revelation.<ref>[http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2011/07/so-you-think-you-understand.html So you understand the cosmological argument?] By Edward Feser. Objection 3</ref> It is different from the traditional cosmological argument in that it does call for a first cause to actual time itself. It retains the traditional feel because it still retains the need to endure existence of the world, but in conjunction with the position that it is the first cause as well.
+Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) thought the beginning of the universe could not be understood by way of philosophical arguments but rather by divine revelation.<ref>[http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2011/07/so-you-think-you-understand.html So you understand the cosmological argument?] By Edward Feser. Objection 3</ref> It is different from the traditional cosmological argument in that it does call for a first cause to actual time itself. It retains the traditional feel because it still retains the need to endure existence of the world, but in conjunction with the position that it is the first cause as well.
 William Lane Craig is the current most prominent defender of the kalam cosmological argument. The argument now gets more specific adding premise 2 that involves the universe. Kalam is essentially that;