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WorksheetsA-Level - Cosmological Argument
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
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
The AQA exam board wants you to know, in detail, Aquinas'...
3rd way
1st way
2nd way
4th way
5th way
What type of argument is Aquinas' third way? (select multiple options then press submit at the bottom)
a priori
a posteriori
inductive
deductive
What type of statements does the cosmological argument use?
synthetic
analytic
The cosmological argument is written in Aquinas' book...
Summa Theologica
Proslogion
Fear and Trembling
The Republic
Aquinas 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
Everything cannot rely on...
an infinite chain of beings/things
God
lots of gods working together
something that is always there
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
Leibniz called this need for full explanations as the:
"Principle of sufficient reason"
"Rejection of infinite regress"
"Product of perfect explanation"
"Need for proper reasons"
For Swinburne, the most surprising thing about the existence of 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
Hume criticises the fact that Aquinas has gone from a necessary being to God. He calls this...
an inductive leap
an a posteriori argument
a knowledge gap
a premise error
Hume also argues that ___________________ could be necessary.
the universe
humans
parents
planet earth
