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Cosmological Argument - Coggle Diagram

- - - - However, Hume’s critique only shows that God’s existence cannot be logically necessary.
      - The cosmological argument could instead hold God’s existence as metaphysically necessary, a term introduced by Saul Kripke.
      - Maybe God’s non-existence is logically possible, but there are metaphysical reasons to think that without God there would be no universe either.
      - Those are that the ultimate explanation of the causation and contingency we observe must be a necessary being.
- - - - He does not just cause, but also sustains
    - - Causal principle is not analytic as it can be coherently denied. An uncaused event is not an inconceivable contradiction
        
        The only relevant evidence for the universe having a cause would be observing the origin of our or other universes
  - - - P1. We observe that there are contingent beings (things that can possibly not exist).
        P2. If it is possible for something to not exist, then there is some time in which it doesn’t exist.
        C1. If everything were contingent, then at one time nothing existed.
        P3. If nothing once existed, nothing could begin to exist, so nothing would exist now.
        C2. So, there must be something that is not contingent, “having of itself its own necessity … That thing we call God.”
        
        INfinite regress is implied from p2 to c1, however this is absurd, as nothing comes from nothing, so there must be something