Cosmological Flashcards
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Describe the cosmological argument
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Created by st Thomas aquinas
Begins with theory of motion
Everything has a cause
Series of causes
Can’t have infinite causes - Infinite regression
So there must be an Uncaused causer
Ex nihili Nihil fit - nothing comes from nothing
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What was Bertrand Russell’s criticism of the cosmological argument
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Believed that the cosmological committed the fallacy of composition
Just bc everything in the universe I caused doesn’t mean that the universe itself it causes
3
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What was coplestons response to russel
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Doesn’t commit fallacy bc the universe is just a sum of its parts
