Cosmological Argument

Question 1

What is the cosmological argument

Answer 1

The causation argument

Question 2

Three main opposition to the cosmological argument

Answer 2

Big Bang
Quantum mechanics
What is gods cause

Question 3

Quantum mechanics

Answer 3

Small particles don’t have a cause and affect chain

Question 4

Explain the Big Bang

Answer 4

15 billion yrs ago. Explosion of matter. The matter expanded and from that matter came everything in the universe. The matter is still expanding

Question 5

The main argument for the cosmological argument

Causation

Answer 5

Everything is caused, everything must be caused by something else. There can’t be a infinite regress of cause and effect, so there must be a first causer. That first cause must be god

Question 6

The argument for contingency

Answer 6

Most things are contingent, there can’t be an infinite regress of contingency there must be at least one necessary being that being is god.

Question 7

Argument from motion

Answer 7

Objects are in motion, for them to be in motion someone must have caused it. There can’t be an infinite regress of motion so there must be a first mover that thing is god

Question 8

Who put forward the cosmological argument

Answer 8

St Thomas Aquinas