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THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
PLAN
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SECTION 1
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Cosmos = universe
Aposteriori, inductive.
INTRO
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KEY IDEAS Must accept universe is intelligible
Must question universe
God is supreme and requires no explanation, the universe does.
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AQUINAS – WAY 1, 2 & 3 Motion = first mover
Cause = first cause
Contingency = creator.
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LEIBNIZ Principle of sufficient reason
“Nothing takes place without a sufficient reason”
Known / unknown explanation for everything.
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COPLESTON Some things in the world do not contain within
themselves the reason for their own existence
The explanation is separate and outside of the world
This is God.
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KALAM / W. L. CRAIG Muslim scholars, 9th century
WLC: “The Kalam Cosmological Argument
Present cannot exist in an infinite universe.
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SECTION 2
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S - SCIENCE HAS NO ALTERNATIVE Science has not yet discovered an alternative explanation.
We live in a scientifically developed age…
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S - LOGICAL AND COHERENT Each step builds in the previous
It is possible to either agree or disagree, not both.
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S - RELATABLE We all experience the universe.
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S - ANY / NO RELIGION The Kalam Argument proves this
This makes it even more relatable.
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W – FIRST PREMISE FAILS If you don’t question the universe.
Bertrand Russell – “Ultimate Brute Fact,” “Just there, and that’s all,” C/R debate
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W – NON-BELIEVERS? The argument raises more questions
It is logically flawed and contradictory.
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W – BBT COULD BE WRONG It is only a theory
The entire argument would then be wrong
Oscillating universe.
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W – DAVID HUME & I. KANT Hume – we never experience causation, it is an illusion
born out of habit
We cannot speculate about what we have never experienced
Kant – We cannot transcend the bounds of our experience.