Cosmological Argument - Basics

The Cosmological Argument

• Argument for the creation of the Universe
• A postieriori - from your sences
• First cause
• Creato ex nihlo
• Aquinas and Copleston, challenges from Hume and Russel
• 1948 - debate on cosmological argument
• Plato and Aristotle - all changes come from the ultimate source
• Domino, sequence of causes
• Natural World provided a lot of evidence for God's existence - Aquinas
• Summa Thelogica
• Five Ways
• Neccesary existence and contingency
• Oldest argument to prove Gods existence
• Ockhams razor - the idea that the simplist explanation is the correct one
• Based on the idea of cause and effect
• First three ways; motion, cause and contingency
• Motion - everything in a…