Strengths Of The Cosmological Argument

Question 1

A posteriori

Answer 1

Based on empirical evidence from our observations of the world around us.

Question 2

Okhams razor

Answer 2

God is the simplest answer for the creation of the world etc, rejecting it would require a much more complicated argument to be formed 🛑 Counter - why is God the simplest answer rather than anything else?

Question 3

Logical

Answer 3

Logic dictates that everything must have a cause to be brought into this universe which would mean that there must be a first cause which started off the cycle of causation, the cosmological argument provides explanation for this.

Question 4

Scientific evidence

Answer 4

The Big Bang theory and Darwin’s Theory of evolution would support the notion of all beings having a cause.