In the long list of arguments, the cosmological argument is the form of argument used in natural theology to prove the existence of God. Thomas Aquinas, in his Summa Theologiae, presented two versions of the cosmological argument: the first-cause argument and the argument from contingency. The first-cause argument begins with the fact that there is a change in the world, and a change is always the effect of some cause or cause. Each cause is itself the effect of a further cause or set of causes; this chain moves in a series that either never ends or is completed by a first cause, which must be of a radically different nature in that it is not itself caused. Such a first cause is an important aspect, though not the entirety, of what Christianity means by God. The argument from contingency follows another route a similar basic movement of thought from the nature of the world to its ultimate ground. Hence the uncaused cause – the first cause is what we understand to be God. The similarity between Aquinas’ cosmological argument and the Big Bang Theory is uncanny. However, if one seeks to deny the existence of an uncaused cause it will create the problem of infinite regress which is just as difficult to prove with rationality as the existence of God.
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How do we really define Philosophy? The Greek word φιλοσοφία – Philosophia. Or as the term has been coined by modern Western language – Philosophy. The literal meaning of this word is relatively static. Derived from its Greek origin it comprises two separate words...
