Strengths and critisms of the Cosmological argument

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what did Bertrand Russell say against the Cosmological argument?
Just because humans have a mother, that doesn't mean that the universe has one.
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What Paul Davies arguing for or against the cosmological argument?
Against
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What did Immanuel Kant say about the cosmological argument?
We can't experience the beginning of the universe so we can't know for certain it was caused by anything
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What did J.L.Mackie (James Mackie) use to argue for the cosmological argument?
Modern maths and science
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Who said 'nothing can come from nothing'?
Aristotle
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what did Gottfried Liebniz say about the cosmological argument?
Nothing can take place without sufficient reason
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Was Richard Dawkins arguing for or against the cosmological argument?
Against
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What did William of Ockham say about the cosmological argument?
all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one
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Who said 'If everything in the universe has a cause, then god must have also been caused by something'?
Richard Dawkins
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What did David Hume say about the cosmological argument?
We didn't experience the beginning of the universe so we can't come to a conclusion about how it happened
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