Cosmological Argument for God' Existence

Question 1

Intro:

Answer 1

Basically the universe couldn’t possibly have created itself so God did

Question 2

Aquinas:

Answer 2

Stuff moves, stuff can’t go from not moving to moving without another moving thing touching it, so something must have made the first thing move, God
Stuff can exist or not, but neither permanently, and stuff has to be brought into existence by something else, but at some point there could have been nothing, so the only way to have something was for a necessary being (God) to make it so

Question 3

Criticisms of Aquinas:

Answer 3

Why not infinite regression?, not every event has a cause - you might a think a bus stopped cause you put your hand out but it might have just run out of petrol, just cause everything in the universe has a cause doesn’t mean the universe itself does - everyone has a mother but there wasn’t One Original Mother, two cold objects rubbed together makes heat from cold, God could be dead by now after the first causing
No reason for God to be the necessary being

Question 4

Leibniz:

Answer 4

There’s no reason for the universe to exist that we can find within the universe, so there must be a God, but there doesn’t Have to be a reason for the universe to exist, maybe it just does as Russell says