The Kalam Cosmological Argument

In the second part of the reading by William Lane Craig and James D. Sinclair, the authors give reasons to support the kalam cosmological argument. Overall, they provided good arguments to support their claims. There was one part of the passage that I had a different idea on. There was a passage where the authors used a boiling kettle as an analogy to the universe. The authors reasoned that there were two explanations to the question, “Why is the kettle boiling?” One being a scientific explanation, another being a personal explanation. The authors then concluded that the same applied to the universe. Since nothing came before the first state of the universe, no scientific explanation is possible because no set laws were in place to explain