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Examine the main strengths and weaknesses of the Cosmological Argument
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a) Examine the main strengths and weaknesses of the Cosmological Argument. (28 marks) The Cosmological Argument is the attempt to argue that there is a God because there is a created universe - the universe must have been created by some divine being. The universe is contingent which means that everything exists because it is dependent on being caused by something else. In turn, that thing was itself caused by something else in a series of causes and effects. However something must have started this chain of cause - something that did not itself need to be caused. The Cosmological Argument concludes that God started the chain - the necessary being who is not dependent on other beings but who is self causing and self-sustaining. This argument is an a posteriori proof based on logical interpretation of experience of the universe. It is primarily associated in its Christian form with Aquinas as...
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