Cosmological Argument criticisms
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- Cosmological Argument Criticisms
- Leibniz
- The universe was caused
- "The great principle of the cosmologicalargument is that nothing takes place without sufficient reason
- There is not sufficient reason within the universe for its existence, the reason must be outside. Therefore it is logical to suggest this isGod
- Hume
- Does every event truly have a cause? We base this upon our assumptions and not on empirical concrete evidence
- Fallacy of composition-just because contingent things within the universe have a cause does not mean the universe has a cause. There is a big leap between stating contingent beings have a cause to the universe having a cause
- Even if we accept the CA, it does not tell us anything about God.
- It is possible that the universe has always existed
- Kalam argument/ William Craig
- Everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence
- Copleston
- Existence if a uniquely functioning predicate
- If things are dependent there must be a necessary being to provide a reason for this dependency. God
- As humans are contingent, it is logical for the whole universe to be contingent therefore there must be a necessary being
- The reason for the worlds existence is either a necessary being or a chain of contingent beings.
- Chain of contingent beings leads to infinite regression and so there is not a sufficient reasons
- Therefore a necessary being must exist, God
- Chain of contingent beings leads to infinite regression and so there is not a sufficient reasons
- Russell
- The words necessary and contingent cannot be applied to things and do not add anything to the subject in question
- There is no reason. The universe I'd "brute fact"
- "Every man has a mother, therefore the human race has a mother" flawed argument
- Leibniz
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