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Cosmological Argument (Against Cosmological Argument (Hume (Just because…
Cosmological Argument
For
Cosmological Argument
Thomas Aquinas
Argument from Motion
Everything is in a state of motion
Nothing moves itself
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Argument from Causation
All things have a cause
Nothing can cause itself
There cannot be an infinite regression of causes
There must be a
First Causer (God)
Argument from Contingency (
Copleston
)
There are contingent things
Contingent things cannot cause other contingent things
There cannot be infinite regression of contingency
There must be at least one
Necessary Being (God)
Leibniz
Sufficient Reason
For every being, event, sentence, there must be a sufficient reason to explain it's qualities. For every being, there must be sufficient reason to explain that beings existence.
William Lane Craig
Kalam Argument
Whatever begins to exist, has a cause of its existence
The universe began to exist
Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence
Against
Cosmological Argument
Hume
Just because everything in a series has a cause, doesn't mean the series itself has a cause. Every human being has a Mother, however, humanity as a whole does not (
Fallacy of Composition
)
Infinite Regression Possible (All beings contingent)
Russell
Universe is a '
Brute Fact
'. "The Universe is there and that's all"
William Temple
*Infinite Regression Possible
. Although Infinite Regression is impossible to imagine, it is not to conceive it.*
Blaise Pascal
May not be the
God of Christianity
Mackie
God is either caused, or doesn't exist (
contradiction
)
Kant
Cause and effect relies on our
sense experience
, some things outside of our experience, such as the origins of the universe,
cannot be known
Kenny
Newtons 1st Law of Motion: "Things can be in
uniform motion without the need of another agent
"