Strength: It's logical.
Logic dictates that objects do not bring themselves into existence and so they must have a cause.
If this is so there must be first cause and the Cosmological argument provides one..
The arguments are often named as follows: (1) argument from motion, (2) argument from efficient cause, (3) argument from necessary being, (4) argument from gradations of goodness, and (5) argument from design..
A serious problem for the cosmological argument is the presence of a “gap” between the sort of being that the argument establishes (e.g., a first cause, a necessary cause) and the classical theistic conception of God (i.e., a being that is a necessary first cause, but is also omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent and .
One of the earliest formulations of the Kalam cosmological argument in the Islamic philosophical tradition comes from Al-Ghazali, who writes: "Every being which begins has a cause for its beginning; now the world is a being which begins; therefore, it possesses a cause for its beginning.".
A serious problem for the cosmological argument is the presence of a “gap” between the sort of being that the argument establishes (e.g., a first cause, a necessary cause) and the classical theistic conception of God (i.e., a being that is a necessary first cause, but is also omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent and .
Inductive reasoning is a posteriori (post experience), depending on empirical evidence to reach a possible and most probable conclusion.
The cosmological argument uses the evidence of the existing and contingent universe as the basis for its argument in suggesting an origin – a first cause..
The cosmological argument asserts that the existence of the universe implies the existence of a first cause, often referred to as God.
This essay provides an introduction to the cosmological argument, specifically examining the versions put forth by Thomas Aquinas and the Kalam Cosmological Argument..
The Cosmological Argument attempts to prove that God exists by showing that there cannot be an infinite number of regressions of causes to things all things that exist
In other words, there cannot be an infinite number of causes that go back in time forever
The cosmological argument does not, however, compel one to choose the first alternative; logically, the second remains equally possible
The ontological argument, which proceeds not from the world to its Creator but from the idea of God to the reality of God, was first clearly formulated by St
Anselm (1033/34–1109) in his Proslogion (1077–78)
The cosmological argument is part of classical natural theology, whose goal is to provide evidence for the claim that God exists, although contemporary treatments of it generally occur outside of considerations of natural theology but have generated a cottage industry of their own
Ancient logical argument
1979 book by William Lane Craig
