Cosmological argument for the existence of God with critique

The Cosmological argument has been presented by...

• St Thomas Aquinas

• St Anselm of Canterbury

• Aristotle

• St Augustine of Hippo

How many 'ways' does Aquinas present as proofs of God?

• 5

• 3

• 2

• 6

How many of Aquinas' ways are cosmological arguments?

• 3

• 2

• 1

• 5

Aquinas Way 3 starts with evidence in the universe, that all things are...

• contingent

• necessary

• caused

• moved by a mover

A contingent being...

• doesn't have to exist

• has to exist

• is caused by God

• is moved by God

If all things are contingent, at one point nothing existed. According to Aquinas this means there must be a...

• necessary being

• contingent being

• uncaused causer

• unmoved mover

Leibniz argued that...

• we require full explanations for why things exist

• God must have created the world

• the Big Bang explains how the universe started

• the reason for the universe's existence is within the universe itself

For Swinburne, the most surprising thing about the universe is...

• that it exists

• how complex it seems

• how it follows regular laws of nature

• that God created it

Bertrand Russell argued that the universe...

• is just 'there' and doesn't need an explanation

• doesn't have enough evidence in it to prove God

• needs an explanation but God is not it

• was caused by scientific processes

Russell says that, if the universe as a whole has one explanation...

• then humans would have one overall mother

• then people would disagree with it

• then there could be other universes with explanations

• then it would be a scientific explanation