A collection of arguments that have been continually added to and developed about the work of God and how the universe exists
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What are the 3 elements of the cosmological argument?
There are things that are in existence, their existence needs an explanation and thees explanations are something slef-caused and independent
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Explain the Russel and Coppleston argument
They had a famous debte in 1947 where Russel argued it wasn't meaningful to doubt the cuase of the universe and we should just ccept it as a brute fact. Coppleston however, said the world must have had a cause and a beginning.
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What are the arguments put forward by Plato and Aristotle?
if something moves, it has been caused to move. If several things move, several things caused them to move. If something exists, it has been made to exist.
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What is the kalam argument?
Al-Kindi and Al-Ghazali argued that whatever comes into being must have a cuase. The universe came into being so must have acause... this cause must be God.
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What does William Craig Lane offer that is different to Al-Kindi and Al-Ghazali?
There is no scientific explanation that can provide a suitable explanation for the origin of the universe. Therefore it must have a creator of one person.
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What is the Kinetological way?
Aquinas's fifth way. Nothing moves by itself, there must have been one movement to move everything else. This first mover must have been God.
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What is Aquinas's first way
MOTION. Nothing can mmove by itself, yet things do move. This chain of movements must have had a first mover. This must have been God.
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What is Aquinas's second way
CAUSE. The word is a chain of events. Ever event is caused yet can't be caused by themselves. This chain must have had a first, uncaused cause to cause the whole sequence. This cause must have been God.
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What is Aquinas's third way?
CONTINGENCY. Some things are contingent. The universe is contingent. They require soemthing to have created them but thus chain of events cannot go back forever, so there must have been a first creator to create the whole contingent sequence. - GOD
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What is the principle of sufficient reason?
Liebniz's argument that the universe needs and explanation as it can't explain itself.
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What is Okham's Razor?
The idea that the simplest solution is most likely the correct one.
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What is meant by the term infinite regress?
A chain/sequence of reasoning that can never come to an end.
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Why does the cosmological argument reject infinite regress?
If the world can have an infinit futre, it could have had a infinite past and wouldn't have been caused by God.
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What is the principle of entorpy?
The idea that everything eventually collapses into chaos or decay - or an END
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What does David Hume say about he cosmological argument?
We can't trust our perception of cause and effect because w don't know if they are linked. Thereofre we can't build points on them as they may be an illusion.
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What pantheism?
Belief in more than one God
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What are the unifield field theories?
Belief that we can have multiple universes which can all co-exist
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How did Coppleston use reductio as absurdum in his argument?
He argued that if all humans have mothers, the universe must have amother. This mother must be God.
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Other cards in this set
Card 2
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What are the 3 elements of the cosmological argument?
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There are things that are in existence, their existence needs an explanation and thees explanations are something slef-caused and independent
Card 3
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Explain the Russel and Coppleston argument
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Card 4
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What are the arguments put forward by Plato and Aristotle?
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