AS RE Revision Quotations: The
Cosmological Argument
For:
Aquinas Three
of his Five Ways:
the argument from an unmoved mover, the uncaused cause, and possibility and
necessity.
The
Kalam Argument everything that exists must have a cause
for its existence
The
universe exists
Therefore
the universe must have a cause.
Anselm “That
than which no greater can be conceived.” i.e. God
“God has
wanted to make an orderly world because beauty is a good thing.” Swinburne
“God is a
necessary being because something must have started the process off. He is not
contingent on anything else.” Coplestone
“Some thing
causes in all other things their being, goodness, perfections… and this we call
God” Aquinas
Against:
“We can
never ascribe to a cause any qualities but what are exactly sufficient to
produce the effect.” Hume
Even if
there was a first cause – why God?
“We observe
an event and a consequence and separate the two into cause and effect. But
because we are limited and cannot get outside the universe, so we cannot assume
they are always linked.” Hume
“If God is
the first cause then he is not the God of Classical Theism because the earth is
flawed.” Hume
“There is no
value in faith, it weakens man and prevents him from taking responsibility.” Russell
“The
existence of the universe is Brute fact – it just is.” Russell
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