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Cosmological

Aquinas 1st way

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Unmoved mover

The universe is in a state of motion, must have a cause

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Cosmological

Aquinas 2nd way

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Uncaused caused

Chain of cause and effect must have started somewhere

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Cosmological

Aquinas 3rd way

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Contingency

Every relies on something else for its existence, the ultimate cause must not be contingent, it must be necessary

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Cosmological

Copleston

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The world is made up of contingent things

All contingent things have an external cause

The world must also, it’s reason must be self explanatory

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Cosmological

Leibniz

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“Why is there something rather than nothing”

All things need sufficient reason to exist

The universe does not contain within itself it’s reason for existence

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Cosmological

Criticism - Russell

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Universe JUST IS, It infinitely regresses

Everything has a cause > universe has a cause
= too big a leap

Just because people have a mother doesn’t mean the universe does

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Cosmological

Criticism - Hume

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Imagination connects cause and effect

Simpler to argue the cause of the universe within itself

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Cosmological

Criticism - Kant

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God is outside time and space, can’t apply a cause to something we haven’t experienced

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Cosmological

William lane craig

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Actual infinite cannot exist as we have already arrived at the present

Universe cannot infinitely regress, must have a beginning created by something outside time