Cosmological Argument

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In Newton’s first law, he explains the law of inertia by stating that an object at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an outside force. This law can be applied on a wider scale to the creation of the universe because put simply, in a chain of events, there must be a beginning that acts as the catalyst to the entire sequences of occurrences. The cosmological argument rests on the first event in the history of the universe because that initial beginning dictates whether there exists a self-existent being. The universe is filled with dependent beings but for those beings to be capable of existing, they are contingent on the existence of an uncaused cause. Under the Principle of Sufficient Reason, everything that comes into existence