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William P. Alston
Alston notes two pillars that he believes, in tandem, support theistic belief: the general consideration of natural theology and the experience of God. For Alston, the latter bears the greater weight and he goes on to explore how such experience contributes appropriate epistemic support to theism.
William Lane Craig ("The Existence of God and the Beginning of the Universe." Truth: A Journal of Modern Thought 3 (1991): 85-96.)
The kalam cosmological argument, by showing that the universe
began to exist, demonstrates that the world is not a necessary being
and, therefore, not self-explanatory with respect to its existence.
Two philosophical arguments and two scientific confirmations are
presented in support of the beginning of the universe. Since whatever
begins to exist has a cause, there must exist a transcendent cause of
the universe.
