Cosmological Argument

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What is the third way of Aquinas' Cosmological Argument?
Contingency
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What does Aquinas say about Efficient cause?
The cause is necessary.
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What did David Hume question?
The idea that every event has a cause.
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What did Russell Coppleston argue about the universe?
That it can only be sufficiently explained by reference to God.
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What was Russell's statement?
'I should say that the universe is just there and that is all.'
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The principle of sufficient reason came from what Philosopher?
G.W. Leibniz
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What is at the heart of the Russell Coppleston debate?
The issue of contigency and necessity and what is a sufficient reason to explain why anything exists.
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