The Cosmological Argument
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- The Cosmological Argument
- The Kalam Argument
- 1) Universe came into being so it must have a cause
- 3) Non- physical cause
- 2) The universe exists without being caused by something else
- 4) God= cause
- 1) Universe came into being so it must have a cause
- Richard Swinburne
- 1) Extraordinary that things even exist
- 3) Something= so many thing
- 2) Natural state of affairs is nothing
- 4) If explained by one simple thing that is the best idea
- 1) Extraordinary that things even exist
- Gottfried Leibniz
- 2) Infinite regress cannot be the only explanation
- 1) Must need a 'sufficient reason' for its existence
- 3) No evidence inside the universe for its existence and so the explanation is outside it
- Frederick Copleston
- 2) That cause must not be dependent on anything else
- 4) God is the explanation
- 1) Everything is caused by an external cause
- 3) Necessary being
- 2) That cause must not be dependent on anything else
- William Craig
- 2) Time cannot be infinite
- 5) God is the cause
- 4) The universe must have had a cause to exist
- 1) The present moment exists
- 3) Universe must have had a start
- 2) Time cannot be infinite
- Thomas Aquinas
- First Way- Motion
- 2) No infinite chain of movers
- 4) We call God
- 1) Nothing can move itself- must be moved by something
- 3) Must be a first mover
- 2) No infinite chain of movers
- Second Way- Cause
- 2) Nothing is its own cause
- 4) God must be the first cause
- 1) All things are caused
- 3) Must be a first cause which all things depend on
- 2) Nothing is its own cause
- Third Way- Necessity and Contingency
- 2) Those factors are dependent on other factors
- 4) God is necessary but not contingent
- 1) Objects are dependent on factors beyond themselves
- 3) Must be a necessary being that is dependent on nothing
- 2) Those factors are dependent on other factors
- First Way- Motion
- David Hume
- 2) No need for an explanation for the whole universe
- 5) Why God?
- 7) No evidence to show God exists.
- 4) Not necessary for a first being
- 6) No need to draw conclusions
- 5) Why God?
- 1) No need to presume for a cause
- 3) Better to explain parts of the universe
- 2) No need for an explanation for the whole universe
- Bertrand Russell
- 1) No need to seek a cause
- 2) The universe needs no explanation
- 1) No need to seek a cause
- Anthony Kenny
- 1) Animals and humans move
- Movement can be explained by the previous motion
- 1) Animals and humans move
- Richard Dawkins
- 2) If science cannot prove anything= must do better sciece
- 1) "intellectual non explanation"
- 3) Must not seek answers in guesswork, mythology and speculation
- The Kalam Argument
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