Cosmological Argument
- Created by: GemmaTegan
- Created on: 29-03-15 20:06
View mindmap
- Challenges to the Cosmological Arguement
- Kenny
- Argues against Aquinas' first way
- Things do move themselves (e.g. people, animals)
- Newton's first law argues movement can be explained by a body's own inertia
- Others have argued this is wrong as when the body is at rest it still undergoes changes
- Argues against Aquinas' first way
- The Big Bang Theory
- Scientific observation has confirmed there was a beginning o the universe
- States that the universe developed when matter and gases reached such a high pressure
- Hume
- Wasn't sufficient evidence to prove the cause of the universe or even that the universe was created
- No experience of the creation of the universe so cannot speak meaningfully of it
- All our knowledge can be reduced to some experience that our senses have provided
- We think we know a lot more about the external world than we actually do
- We allow imagination to make a connection between cause and effect
- Aquinas was wrong to make a connection between cause and effect
- Universe did not have to have a beginning, but it did - doesn't mean anything caused it
- Therefore does not prove God caused the universe to exist
- Wasn't sufficient evidence to prove the cause of the universe or even that the universe was created
- Kant
- Impossible for people to have any knowledge of God or what he created
- Cannot know God therefore should not talk about him so cannot suggest if God created the universe
- Idea that every event must have a first cause cannot apply to something we haven't experienced
- Impossible for people to have any knowledge of God or what he created
- Russell
- "The universe is there and that is all"
- Believed words were often used without the user really knowing what they mean
- Philosophical logic - where philosophical questions were reworded in maths terms
- Famous radio debate with Coppleston
- Could not agree and Russell concluded Coppleston was making a fallacy of composition just because we have a mother does not mean the universe has a mother
- Idea of contingency flawed as God would need a specific category of his own for being a necessary being
- Kenny
Comments
No comments have yet been made