Cosmological argument
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The '''cosmological argument''', or "first cause" argument, takes the existence of the universe to entail the existence of a being that created it. It does so based on the fact that the universe had a beginning. There must, the first cause argument says, be something that caused that beginning, a first cause of the universe. | The '''cosmological argument''', or "first cause" argument, takes the existence of the universe to entail the existence of a being that created it. It does so based on the fact that the universe had a beginning. There must, the first cause argument says, be something that caused that beginning, a first cause of the universe. | ||
[[Category: Arguments]] | [[Category: Arguments]] | ||
[[Category: Arguments for the existence of God]]. | [[Category: Arguments for the existence of God]]. | ||
Revision as of 11:19, 26 July 2006
The cosmological argument, or "first cause" argument, takes the existence of the universe to entail the existence of a being that created it. It does so based on the fact that the universe had a beginning. There must, the first cause argument says, be something that caused that beginning, a first cause of the universe..
