Aquinas Cosmological argument for existence of God

What is the meaning of the word 'cosmos'?

• the galaxy
• the cosmopolitan
• the universe
• the world

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 thing...

• doesn't have to exist

• has to exist

• is caused by God

• is moved by God

The universe is therefore also contingent, so at one point nothing existed. 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

Way 1 argues from

• Cause

• Motion

• Contingency

• Necessary

Way 2 argues that there has to be

• An Unmoved Mover

• A Prime Mover

• An Uncaused Cause

• A necessary being