The cosmological argument

Question 1

What is significant about Aristotle and Plato?

Answer 1

They lived in a polytheist society and noticed that everything has a cause

Question 2

What is Aquinas’ Premesis (from movement)?

Answer 2

+ Everything moves everything else
+ There must be an “unmoved mover” who begins this chain
+ Must be god

Question 3

What is the Kalam argument?

Answer 3

+ Everything that exists has a cause
+ The universe exists
+ Whoever created this universe must live outside of it
+ God is the cause

Question 4

What is Coppleston’s argument?

Answer 4

+ Everything in the universe is caused by something else
+ The universe must be caused by something else
+ The cause must not depend on anything else
+ The cause is God

Question 5

What is Bertrand Russell’s argument?

Answer 5

+ There is no need to seek an answer for the universe as a whole
+ The Universe had no explanation
+ Answering what caused the universe is “a question that has no meaning”

Question 6

What is the main Premesis of the Cosmological Argument?

Answer 6

+There is something rather than nothing
+ The universe can’t cause itself
+ The cause of the universe must exist outside the universe
+ The universe can’t continue into a state of infinite regress