The Causation Argument

Question 0

What is the overview of the causation argument

Answer 0

• nothing happens by itself
• everything that happens must be caused by something else
• the universe cannot have have happened by itself
• a powerful cause was necessary to cause the universe
• this cause is God
• therefore god exists

Question 1

How does the causation argument try to convince people that God exists

Answer 1

By show that everything happens for a reason

Question 2

What is another name for the causation argument

Answer 2

The cosmological argument

Question 3

What did Thomas Aquinas argue

Answer 3

That everything happens is caused by something else
However he said that you cannot go back indefinitely and that you must have been a first cause of the universe. He believed that this first cause must be God

Question 4

What did Thomas Aquinas call god and why

Answer 4

Unmoved mover because is is the start of the universe

Question 5

What is the argument against the causation argument

Answer 5

• it can not be proved
• even if everything in the world seems to have a cause, it does not mean that the universe needs to have a causes
• the argument only suggests that God is the cause of the universe
• there are other possible causes of the universe such as the scientific ‘big bang’ theory
• if everything has cause, what is God’s cause

Question 6

What is the cause of a apple

Answer 6

It grows on a tree
The tree grows from a seed
Who created the seed
God