To answer the questions of existence and permanence
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Ancient Greek For Cosmological
Plato- Movement is either caused or self generated Aristotle- Prime Mover/ Unmoved mover
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Who developed this and created the Cosmological argument. How?
Aquinas and his three ways 1st- From motion 2nd- First cause 3rd- Possibility and neccesity
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What type of argument was it
Posteriori
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The first way
From motion- The domino effect- Must of been a start to movement (unmoved mover)
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The second way
From first cause- If everything has a final cause there must be a first cause
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The Third way
From Possibility and necessity- All natural things are contingent, there must be a being of necessary existence or all contingent things would cease to exist
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Criticisms of Ways
- First and second similar - It is possible that in the third way the time of contingent things to cease just hasn't come yet
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Criticisms
Not everything has a cause... The Big Bang Theory
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Summary
Although offers reasonable answer to questions, the Big Bang theory is more relevant as uses scientific evidence
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