Cosmological/causation argument
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- Created on: 01-05-16 16:59
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- Cosmological/causation argument
- Explanation
- 1.Everything we see in the world must have a cause
- 2. Anything caused to exist must be caused by something else
- 3. Only God can be the cause of the universe
- 4. God must exist
- Arguments for the explanation
- If we look at things in the world, we can see that they have a cause e.g. temperature falling and water becoming ice at 0*c
- Anything caused to exist must be caused by something else
- As to cause your own existence, you would have to exist before you exist which is impossible
- You cannot keep going back with causes, there must be a beginning
- The only possible first cause of the universe is God
- Mackie's train- the train has an engine and carriages. The carriages cannot move without the engine and each carriage pulls the other carriages. Carriages cannot move on their own
- Arguments against the explanation
- Why should the causes stop at God?
- What Caused God?
- How can God be the only thing uncaused by something if everything needs a cause?
- Can matter not have been around for ever?
- Why does the first cause have to be God? It could be any sort of creator
- Why should the causes stop at God?
- The explanation allows for God to be the creator of evolution (using the 7 days of creation) and the big bang
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