Examples Of Cosmological Arguments

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There is a “God”. Call it what you may, but there is a higher being upon us all. Cosmological arguments state that there must be an uncaused cause of the universe. Everything has a beginning and almost everything contains a specific purpose. In order for anything to obtain purpose, there had to have been someone or something to distribute those purposes. That something had to have been in high power due to the fact that it was in existence before those purposes were distributed. All parts of nature depend on each other. For example, most living organisms depend on oxygen to survive. An independent variable directly influences a dependent variable. Therefore, there has to be an independent being to influence dependent beings. In order for

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