argument help: What is a Cosmological Argument?

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What is a Cosmological Argument?

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chunkymove 4 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (10 minutes after post)

“The cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of a First Cause to the universe, and by extension it is often used as an argument for the existence of God” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmolog…

Let me know if that doesn’t explain it.

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M. Wright 6 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (22 minutes after post)

What chunkymove said.

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Coalesce 31 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (10 hours, 56 minutes after post)

While Chunky may be correct… I still hold that the following are valid cosmological arguments:

1) “Pluto is too a planet!”
2) “Nuh uuuuuh!”

and

*Looking at a poster and reading aloud*

1) “”Keep Earth clean… its not Uranus.” That is suuuch a lame joke”
2) “Nuh uuuuuh!”

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chunkymove 4 #
An Unknown Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (17 hours, 47 minutes after post)

Coalesce wrote:
cosmological argument:

1) “Pluto is too a planet!”
2) “Nuh uuuuuh!”

LOL

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Hope 2 #
An Undisclosed Location | 1 year, 1 month ago (1 day, 5 hours after post)

The Cosmological Argument attempts to prove that God exists by showing that there cannot be an infinite number of regressions of causes to things that exist. It states that there must be a final uncaused-cause of all things. This uncaused-cause is asserted to be God.

The Cosmological Argument takes several forms, but is basically represented below.
1. Things exist.
2. It is possible for those things to not exist.
3. Whatever has the possibility of non existence, yet exists, has been caused to exist.
- Something cannot bring itself into existence, since it must exist to bring itself into existence, which is illogical.
4. There cannot be an infinite number of causes to bring something into existence.
- An infinite regression of causes ultimately has no initial cause, which means there is no cause of existence.
- Since the universe exists, it must have a cause.
5. Therefore, there must be an uncaused cause of all things.
6. The uncaused cause must be God.

Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274) had a version of the Cosmological Argument called the Argument from Motion. He stated that things in motion could not have brought themselves into motion, but must be caused to move. There cannot be an infinite regression of movers. Therefore, there must be an Unmoved Mover. This Unmoved Mover is God.

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