Everything that begins to exist has a cause of its existence 2. The universe began to exist 3. Therefore, the universe has a cause of existence His defense of the Kalam Cosmological Argument revolves mostly around the second premise. This is mostly due to him finding the first premise as intuitively obvious, where he claims that “no one, seriously denies it”. From experience, we find that physical objects do not come into existence without causes.
The Cosmologist of “The Naba Zid-Wendé” Humans all over the world and at all time periods have wondered everything about the creation of the world. This phenomenon - the unity of personal thoughts all around the globe - is known as the collective unconscious, as mentioned in “The Inner Reaches of Outer Space: Metaphor as Myth and as Religion” reviewed by Robert A. Segal. The functions of myths are mystical, cosmological, sociological, and psychological. The myth of the “Naba Zid-Wendé” serves a cosmological function due to its elements.
I think William Lane Craig made a strong argument when it came to a cosmological argument. He does have a point that there is an explanation of how the world came to be but there is more to it, such as dates and things like that. He says that the ultimate question in philosophy would be “why does anything exists”? He brings up that atheist think that the universe is eternal but he says there is reasons why the universe began. He says its obscured to think that its number of past events is infinite, which he says leads to self-contradictions.
From an opposite point of view, we have to Thomas Hobbes who states that the universe is a great corporeal machine which follows mechanical laws. This mechanical laws can explain
The first premise of my argument is, there has never been the case in our lives were a thing was the efficient cause of its self. This premise says that nothing can be the cause of itself and thus it cannot have existed before it has existed. An example is a cup made of plastic, the cup is not its first efficient cause since it cannot create its self. The cup was created by a human who is the first efficient cause, he used a machine and plastic which are intermediary causes leading to the ultimate cause, the plastic
the cosmological argument seems to be successful in both its first and second stages that the cosmos exists and it has a first cause. Its third point the first cause is God is more contentious, but it is far from easy to decline. Aquinas ' appreciation of God is a practical one God is not just an appropriate thing that might or might not exist. God is existence in its accomplishment or completeness. accepting that our compassionate accessible us on to such an existence is a common aspiration for do we not all want to know a more perfect reality?
The argument for God’s existence is that God is a perfect being, he is infinite, independent, supremely intelligent, and supremely powerful. Descartes goes on to talk about how God exists because he can conceive of him as better than himself (AD 40). God is perfect and perfect at everything, and was the first thing that sent everything into motion (AD 45). God is the ultimate cause.
Cosmological theories have been proposed by different persons in the history as they try to make sense of the universe. Cosmology is a form of religion or a belief that has existed, however there are other several believes that human beings have been putting across to help explain the nature of the universe. Cosmology refers to the study of origin of universe. Origin of universe has been proposed by several theories as dictated by historical facts. Our interest is the religious cosmology, which is composed of beliefs that are based on creation stories.
The Cosmological argument, when summarised, goes like this: everything in the world has a cause, but we haven’t found one for the universe. Therefore, the cause of it must be God. But what caused God? Nothing.
The cosmological argument looks to the world to prove God’s existence rather than pure definitions. The proponent of the cosmological argument was St. Thomas Aquinas, a theologian in the eleventh century CE (Solomon). He proposed that everything that exists must have a cause, and that the cause was God (Aquinas). Aquinas’ first point was based off of motion, that nothing can be both the mover and moved. An item sitting in place has the potential to be moving, but cannot move unless something that is already moving imparts motion to it
Black holes are areas in which huge amounts of mass are compressed together, creating a gravitational field so strong that when it crosses the black hole, not even light can escape. They are the final stage for stars 10-15 times as massive as our Sun, because after they explode into a supernova, the gravity causes them to collapse into themselves. They shrink and compress mass until the former star’s volume is at 0. When this happens, they become infinitely dense and the star’s own light becomes trapped inside. The black holes can only pull in objects of similar or lesser mass, since their gravitational pull is only as strong as their mass.
The early, active, bright, busy happy universe is already losing steam, you see, it isn’t the sort of thing to keep popping and growing as a poet or author of sentiments would hope. Unfortunately, this universe is a friend of decadence, and as the chronometers go on, so too will the expanse of space the universe occupies, but the relatively finite amount of energy will become so thinly spread that nothing will be anything but the darkest, the darkest nothing, for billions of miles, hundreds of light years, thousands of light years, eventually you could walk the distance of the existent universe from one corner to the other without seeing a single spark because it’s all gone. THE UNIVERSE IS DECADENT This inevitable de-cadence to nihilism
Furthermore, research conducted proved that the amount of elements in the universe correspond to the proportions expected the Big Bang occured. Thus, supporting the model. However, the model disregards the rule that nothing is able to travel faster than the speed of light. This is because, in the early inflationary period of the big bang, it was expanding in a times of a fraction of a second. Moreover, it violates the first law of thermodynamics, which states that matter or energy cannot be created or destroyed.
Argument for the existence of god is being proposed in several ways. Some based on science while some are about personal experience and some on philosophical arguments such as ontological arguments, first cause arguments, arguments based on deign, moral arguments. Each of these support conception. Ontological argument say that if you inculcate the idea of god , we can see him . There is a saying that “Nothing comes from Nothing but something comes from something”.
Pg. 63). The general principles of a cosmological argument are: effects have causes, things happen and things exist for a reason, it’s trying to explain things, and all our sciences, studies, and lives are based on it (McGowan, Michael. N.p.). During Josh Wheaton’s speech in defending his belief, he uses this type of argument and talks about the Big Bang. He talked about how in the 1920s, Belgian astronomer and theist, Georges Lemaitre, said the entire universe jumping into existence in a trillionth of a second, out of nothing, in a flash of light, is how he would expect the universe to respond if God were to actually utter the command in Genesis 1:3, “let there be light”.
