Cosmological Argument Quiz

According to the cosmological argument, what is the first premise?

• Whatever begins to exist has a cause

• The universe began to exist

• Believing in magic is more reasonable than something popping into existence without a cause

• Everyday experience and scientific evidence confirm that something must have a cause

What does the second law of thermodynamics suggest about the universe?

• The universe has been here forever

• The universe is slowly running out of usable energy

• The universe is expanding

• The universe sprang into being from a single point in the finite past

Who predicted that the universe is expanding?

• Albert Einstein

• Alexander Friedmann

• Georges Lemaitre

• Edwin Hubble

What did Edwin Hubble's measurements confirm?

• The universe is expanding

• The universe has a definite beginning

• The universe is eternal in the past

• The universe is a multiverse

What did Arvind Borde, Alan Guth, and Alexander Vilenkin prove?

• The universe is eternal in the past

• The universe has an absolute beginning

• The multiverse is eternal in the past

• The multiverse has an absolute beginning

What must the cause of the universe be, according to the cosmological argument?

• Spaceless, timeless, immaterial, uncaused, and unimaginably powerful

• Spaceless, timeless, material, caused, and unimaginably powerful

• Spatial, temporal, material, caused, and unimaginably powerful

• Spatial, temporal, immaterial, uncaused, and unimaginably powerful

What does the cosmological argument show?

• It is unreasonable to believe that God exists

• It is reasonable to believe that God exists

• The universe has no cause

• The universe caused itself