Cosmological Argument

Question 0

What Greek philosopher made one of the earliest cosmological arguments?

Answer 0

Aristotle

Question 1

Identify 3 features associated with the God of classical theism

Answer 1

Omnipotent, omnibenevolent, omniscient

Question 2

What did Aristotle refer to God as?

Answer 2

Prime mover or first cause

Question 3

Who said that saying the universe happened by chance is like admitting ‘effects without cause’

Answer 3

Pope John Paul 2nd

Question 4

What does the word ‘cosmos’ mean?

Answer 4

The universe as a well ordered system

Question 5

What does the word telos mean?

Answer 5

The end

Question 6

What was the name of Aquinas’ main body of work?

Answer 6

Summaries of theology

Question 7

What does Aquinas mean by movement?

Answer 7

In the broadest terms, change

Question 8

What does actuality mean?

Answer 8

A state of being

Question 9

What does potentiality mean?

Answer 9

The characteristics you have and may become

Question 10

What does Aquinas refer to God as in the first way

Answer 10

Unmoved mover / prime mover

Question 11

What is an a posteriori argument?

Answer 11

To know something based on experience or observation

Question 12

What does the word ex-nihilo mean?

Answer 12

Out of nothing

Question 13

What does Quentin Smith say about the Kalam cosmological argument?

Answer 13

Quantum mechanics to show that not all things need a direct cause

Question 14

What does the word Kalam mean?

Answer 14

Argument

Question 15

Which American professor is credited with outlining the Kalam cosmological argument?

Answer 15

William Lane Craig

Question 16

What does Richard Swineburn say about the cosmological argument?

Answer 16

It is the simplest explanation of something rather than nothing

Question 17

What key word is based on faith and the idea that religious belief cannot be justified through rational means?

Answer 17

Fideism

Question 18

What does Paul Davies refer to the universe as when describing steady state theory?

Answer 18

Self sustaining mechanism

Question 19

What does the word of creationism mean?

Answer 19

Belief that God created everything

Question 20

What law does Anthony Kenny use to reject the cosmological argument?

Answer 20

Newton’s first law of motion

Question 21

Which two philosophers had a radio debate discussing cosmological argument?

Answer 21

Russell and Copleston

Question 22

Which philosopher came up with the idea of the fallacy of composition?

Answer 22

Bertrand Russell

Question 23

What is natural theology?

Answer 23

Knowledge of God rough the study of nature

Question 24

Identify three scientific challenges to the cosmological argument

Answer 24

Big Bang theory, steady state theory and Anthony Kenny - Newton’s first law of motion

Question 25

Name the three ways that make up Aquinas’ cosmological argument

Answer 25

Cause, contingency and motion/change

Question 26

Name three thinkers who opposed the cosmological argument made by Aquinas

Answer 26

Bertrand Russell, Immanuel Kant and David Hume

Question 27

What is an efficient cause?

Answer 27

An action that can bring about the desired effect

Question 28

What is the name of Anthony Kenny’s book criticising the cosmological argument?

Answer 28

5 ways

Question 29

Which thinker argues that it is impossible to have any knowledge of God?

Answer 29

Immanuel Kant

Question 30

What is ‘cause in esse’

Answer 30

A cause that makes something and sustains it

Question 31

Which thinker argues that linking cause and effect doesn’t necessarily lead to God?

Answer 31

David Hume

Question 32

Copleston refers to two types of causes. What were they?

Answer 32

Cause in esse

Cause in feiri