Cosmological Argument Flashcards
What does inductive mean?
Argument constructed on evidence/experience
What does Empirically mean?
Using knowledge gained through experience of 5 senses
What does Posterori mean?
Statement Based on an actual observation
Posited
Put foreword an argument
What is the basis of Aquinas first way?
Observing the universe things
either move or change
Don’t move or change on their own
Something must have started it
Movers/ moving in the universe- something outside the universe started this- prime mover, unmoved mover
“Which all men called God”
Built on Aristotle- potentiality and actuality
Block of marble
Explain the basis of Aquinas’ second way?
Cause and effect- Everything is subject to this Could be tracked infinitively- appears impossible Aquinas says God Can’t cause yourself Domino analogy Efficient, intermediate, ultimate Ultimate wouldn’t have fallen without first
What is the basis of Aquinas’ third way?
Contingency and necessity
Everything that exists has the possibility of not (contingent)
Has to be a non contingent brought everything into exsietent
God- neccesary to Aquinas
All things in nature are limited
Something unlike everything else
What is the kalem arguement
Argue/ discuss- Arabic Work of Islamic scholars 9th and 11th William lane craig Everything has a cause The universe exists Has a cause No scientific explanation provides an origin
What’s Craig’s development to answer arguments?
An actual infinite cannot exist
A begginingless temporal series of events is an actual infinite
A beginningless temporal of series of events cannot exist
Library analogy
Actual and potential infinities Only actual A potential confirms the beggining Confusing Straightforward
Challenges to cosmological?
Scientific advancements
Big Bang
Hume- observe and effect in universe doesn’t mean the universe is the same
No experience or creation
Not enough evidence of a cause or what the cause is
We don’t know the attributes of God to comment
