The Cosmological Argument

A Quiz for the Cosmological Argument to aid revision.

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  • Created on: 28-04-10 11:05

1. Which one of these is not one of Thomas Aquina's premise?

  • Either the chain of causes extends infinitely backward, or there is a First (Uncaused) Cause.
  • Something must have created the physical matter because it can not always have existed.
  • Nothing causes itself; everything is caused by something else.
  • The chain of causality cannot extend infinitely backward.
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2. A premise of the Kalam cosmological argument is that

  • The universe is the same as God.
  • The Universe continues for infinity.
  • What Ever begins to exist has a cause
  • Everything has a cause

3. F. C. Copleston had a famous debate with who?

  • Richard Swinburne
  • Elton John
  • Thomas Aquinas
  • Bertrand Russel
  • Richard Dawkins

4. Who wront "The human quest for explanation ineveitably and rightly seeks for the ultimate exlanation of everything observable- that object or objects on which everything else depends for its existence and properties... A may be explained by B and B by C,

  • Richard Swinburne
  • Richard Dawkins
  • David Hume
  • Leibniz

5. Ex Nihilo means "Out of Nothing"

  • True
  • False
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