  The Kalam Cosmological Argument is perhaps the most solid and widly discussed
argument for a caused creation of the universe. The usual objections to the
argument mainly focus on the second premise. In this paper we discuss the
dependency of the first premise on the topological structure of the space-time
manifold adopted for the underlying cosmological model. It is shown that in
chronology-violating space-times the first premise is also violated. The
chronology-violation, in turn, requires a massive violation of the so-called
energy conditions which could have observational effects that are briefly
discussed here. Hence, astronomical observations could be relevant for the
validity of the metaphysical argument. In this sense, it is possible to talk of
"observational theology".
