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Cosmological argument - inductive argument
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- 1a posterioribased on observation and experience
- 2empericalknowledge gained through experience of the senses
- 3inductive proofconstructed on evidence or experience that puts forward a possible conclusion based on these
- 4what example did Aquinas use for the first way (motion in the cosmological argument)Wood becoming hot
It has within it the properties to get hot but needs something to cause it to happen - 5Aquinas first way cosmologicalmotion or change.
unmoved mover or what Aristotle called the 'prime mover'
a state of potentiality to actuality but needs an efficient cause - 6Aquinas second way - cosmologicalcause and effect
everything in nature is subject to the law of this. Domino analogy (efficient cause, intermediate cause, ultimate cause) - 7quinas third waycontingency and necessity. everything has possibility of not existing. in order for eveything to exist something non-contingent must exist and this is God.
- 8Aquinas' example for third way (contingency)Mother and child
- 9The Kalam cosmological argumentmeaning 'to discuss' modernised by apologist William Lane Craig.
Bases itself on the impossibility of the universe being infinite.
1. Everything has a cause of existence
2. the universe exists
3. Therefore the universe has a cause of existence
4. since no scientific evidence, it must be explained by a personal agent - 10Craigs arguments to back his second point to the Kalam cosmological argument1. an actual infinite cannot exist.
2. a beginningless temporal series of events is an actual infinite.
3. means that a beginningless temporal series of events cannot exist.
Eg of library of red and black books - 11challenges to the cosmologicalScience of quantum physics, chaos theory and similar radical progressions have a role in diminishing belief.
Hume - 'fallacy of composition' we have mothers but the universe doesnt.
- no evidence to say the universe had a cause or what it could be
- why is it the God of classical theism
- no experienc eof its creation so there is no certainty
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