Assess The Cosmological Argument

“There is sufficient reason to believe that God is the cause of the universe” The cosmological argument is a multitude of arguments that have been developed to modern day ideas. These arguments are based on natural theology; this is when someone has knowledge of God based on experiences. It is a philosophical argument that aims to prove the existence of God. The cosmological argument rejects the idea of infant regress because if that is the cause there is no need for God. The origins of the cosmological argument comes from Plato and Aristotle in the 4th and 3rd centuries BC they believed that the universe needs a craftsmen however they did not say that the craftsmen was God just that there needed to be an unmoved mover because there needs to be a firs cause to chain. The idea behind this was that we should look at the simplest explanation for the creation on the universe. Aristotle also argued that the prime mover could not fit in the physical world …show more content…
The kalam argument unlike other cosmological argument is that it relies on idea that the universe has a beginning and that it hasn’t got an infinite past. Supports of the argument argue that it is impossible that the universe has an infinite past, because if not we would never be in the present, this argument supports the idea of the big bang as well as God, because that would prove that the universe has got a beginning. Another principle of the kalam argument is that there needs to be a self-causing necessary being (God), because there needs to be a prime mover to start the sequence of events. This supports the idea that God was the first cause of the big bang. This argument supports the existence of God because he is the self-causing necessary being. The only adequate explanation, the arguments suggest, is that it was created by