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THE COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT
PLAN
SECTION 1
Cosmos = universe
Aposteriori, inductive.
INTRO
KEY IDEAS Must accept universe is intelligible
Must question universe
God is supreme and requires no explanation, the universe does.
AQUINAS – WAY 1, 2 & 3 Motion = first mover
Cause = first cause
Contingency = creator.
LEIBNIZ Principle of sufficient reason
“Nothing takes place without a sufficient reason”
Known / unknown explanation for everything.
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.
KALAM / W. L. CRAIG Muslim scholars, 9th century
WLC: “The Kalam Cosmological Argument
Present cannot exist in an infinite universe.
SECTION 2
S - SCIENCE HAS NO ALTERNATIVE Science has not yet discovered an alternative explanation.
We live in a scientifically developed age…
S - LOGICAL AND COHERENT Each step builds in the previous
It is possible to either agree or disagree, not both.
S - RELATABLE We all experience the universe.
S - ANY / NO RELIGION The Kalam Argument proves this
This makes it even more relatable.
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
W – NON-BELIEVERS? The argument raises more questions
It is logically flawed and contradictory.
W – BBT COULD BE WRONG It is only a theory
The entire argument would then be wrong
Oscillating universe.
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.