Cosmological argument

Question 1

What is the argument from motion

Answer 1

1)An object that is in motion is put in motion by some other object or force
2)Nothing can move itself
3)Every object in motion must have had a mover so the first object in motion needed a mover
4)Movement cannot go on for infinity. The first mover is the unmoved mover, called God

Question 2

What is the definition of Movement

Answer 2

All change from potentiality to Actuality

Question 3

What is the Argument from causation of existence

Answer 3

1)There exists things that are caused (created) by other things
2)Nothing can be the cause of itself
3)There cannot be an endless string of objects causing other objects to exist
4)Therefore God has to exist

Question 4

What is the argument from necessary and contingent objects

Answer 4

1)There exist contingent beings
2)Nothing every being can be contingent
3)There must exist a being which is necessary to cause contingent beings
4)That necessary being is god

Question 5

What is Murphy’s law

Answer 5

Whatever can happen, will happen

Question 6

What is the Epicurean hypothesis

Answer 6

There is a very high probability that a random system, over a very long/infinite period of time, will have periods of order and stability

Question 7

Who’s laws serve as a problem to Aquinas’ physics

Answer 7

Isaac Newton

Question 8

What disproves Aquinas’ notion that it is natural for things to be at rest

Answer 8

Newton’s first law of motion

Question 9

What is Newton’s first law of motion

Answer 9

An object at rest stays at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion unless acted upon by a force

Question 10

What disproves Aquinas’ notion that the universe has always existed and is infinite in the past

Answer 10

The Second law of thermodynamics

Question 11

What is the Second law of Thermodynamics

Answer 11

In a natural thermodynamic process, the sum of the entropies of the participating thermodynamic systems increases

Question 12

What was Humes challenge to the cosmological argument

Answer 12

The problem of induction

Question 13

What was the problem of induction

Answer 13

“There is no justification for saying:that instances, of which we had no experience, must resemble those, of which we have had experience, and that the course of nature continues always the same” (Treatise oh human nature, 1739)