The cosmological argument could be better known as the ‘………………………………..’
Its main point is that there must have been a ……………………… cause
It is based on ……………………………………..– we see ……………………………..in action around us – things are born and things die.
……………………….. believed that there must have been one cause which caused everything else but which itself was not caused by anything else.
This cause was a ……………………………being as it was not …………………………… upon anything else for its existence.
And this Aquinas called ……………..
This fits with Anselm’s view that God is ‘the …………………………………….. and if that is the case then he must of necessity exist.
Objectors to the cosmological argument include ………………………who believed that even if there was a first cause, to conclude that it was God was a…………………………..……………………………………
Others like …………………….. believe that order and cause and effect are concepts we impose on the world because we can’t cope with the concept of chaos.
As ………………………………… said just because we don’t have the technology or understanding yet doesn’t mean we won’t at some time in the future. We don’t need to therefore assume God is the answer just because it will do for the moment.
………………………………………..went further to say that the universe just is – ……………………. – so why discuss it Since we can never know the answer!?
Words to fill in the gaps with
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Contingent |
A leap too far |
Brute Fact |
Bertrand Russell |
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Cause and effect |
observation |
David Hume |
Necessary |
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Hume |
Causmological |
Greatest being imaginable |
Kant |
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God |
Aquinas |
First |