God - Cosmological Arguments
- Created by: Olivia Grace Matthews
- Created on: 18-01-16 14:38
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- God - Cosmological Arguments
- Empirical Arguments
- Start from observations of the world
- Arguing from general patterns in experience
- Cosmological: From observing cause and effect we see the universe must have a cause
- Teleological: We see the universe must have a designer
- Problem of evil: Universe can't be the work of a benevolent creator
- Aquinas
- Argument from motion, change and necessity
- Motion: Must have been a prime mover to set everything in motion
- Cause: Every effect must have a cause. Something must have been a cause without itself = God
- Necessity: Something must have existed that was not contingent to ensure existence got started
- Must it be God?
- Big Bang = Description. Could God also have caused the big bang?
- Cosmogony
- Random Events
- Void like conditions displayed fluctuations
- Problems: Suggests that at some level, the universe didn't have a cause
- Cyclical Models
- Universe contracts to a big crunch which then becomes the next big bang
- These models deny there has to be a beginning to the universe
- Random Events
- The Kalam Cosmological Argument
- Coined by William Lane Craig
- Everything that begins to exist has a cause. Universe began to exist. Universe must have cause
- Sequence can't go back indefinitely
- Must be entity that doesn't require a cause ie God
- Only God can be the cause of the universe
- Hilbert's Hotel
- Infinite Hotel with infinite number of guests
- We couldn't build the hotel but theres nothing stopping one from existing
- Empirical Arguments
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