Old apologetics never die, they just lie dormant. Been a dog's age since I did any real atheist content on the channel, and I'm sure we've covered this before, but it's worth re-visiting as this is a hardy

William L. Rowe in his paper, "The Cosmological Argument," makes the point that the proponent of the cosmological argument (CA) does not commit the fallacy of composition as is often assumed.

Cosmic Emanation & The Theosophical Cosmos