The Classic Cosmological Argument
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- The Classic Cosmological Argument
- The First Cause Argument.
- Derives that God exists from an a posteriori premise.
- Based on what we can see in the universe.
- Derives that God exists from an a posteriori premise.
- Based on Contingency.
- Everything comes into existence because something causes it to.
- (Caused to exist but doesn't have to exist)
- Chain of causes going back to the start of time.
- Began with the creation of the universe but something must have caused it.
- Everything comes into existence because something causes it to.
- God has necessary existence therefore God must have been its first cause
- The First Cause Argument.
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