The Key Ideas of the Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God

The Key Ideas of the Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God

A) The cosmological argument is to prove the existence of god. In this

type of argument we are looking at cause and not design. This type of

argument is an aposteriori argument because it is based upon

experience. Thomas Aquinas puts the key ideas into 3 ways. First way

is, motion/change. Nothing can move by itself or change itself. The

first thing to have moved must have been moved by something else and

that thing therefore must be God.

” It is certain and evident to our senses, that in the world some

things are in motion. Now whatever moves is moved by another. It is

therefore impossible that, a thing should be both mover and moved. If

that by which it is moved be itself moved, then this also must needs

be moved by another. But his cannot go on to infinity, because then

there would be no first mover and subsequently no other mover.

Therefore it is necessary to arrive at a first mover, moved by no

other, and this everyone understands to be god”

He calls God the unmoved mover because God did not have to be caused.

The second way in which he argues for the existence of god is by

saying that everything that exists has a cause. Nothing can come to

existence without being caused. Everything that exists depends on

something causing it; he concludes he’s argument by saying that God is

the first cause. He did not have to be caused as he was always there.

“The second way is from the nature of efficient cause. In the world.

We find there is an order of efficient causes. There is no case know

(neither is it indeed possible) I which a thing is found to be the

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Scientist are saying that there little particles which have caused

them self’s from nothing with out a cause. The kalam argument relies

on science. The kalam argument says that everything that exists must

have a cause. But we have seen that that is no longer true. The theory

of the big bang, that the universe started in a little point and then

exploded and is getting bigger. Scientists are saying that the

universe is getting bigger suggests that there was a starting point,

which is the big bang. But the big bang is only a theory and hasn’t

been proven. One of the main strengths of the cosmological argument is

that how could any thing come from nothing. If using the big bang

theory, how did the big bang happen itself? I believe in 1 God but

think that the weaknesses are stronger than the strengths.