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The cosmological argument for God, also known as the argument from First Cause
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The Cosmological Argument The cosmological argument for God, also known as the argument from First Cause, has been one of the most frequent defences of the rationality of theism throughout its long history. Cosmological arguments have been proposed by some of history's greatest intellects, including Saint Thomas Aquinas and Aristotle. In essence, it states: All events have a cause, and the world as we know it is comprised of events. Everything that we observe is an effect of some previous cause. Since there cannot be an infinite regress of events, there must be some Uncaused Cause outside of the world, that is, a God. The problems with this argument are manifold. Some debaters, drawing on some interpretations of Quantum Mechanics, may deny the iron law that all events must have a cause. Some also question the premise that an infinite regress of events cannot exist; however, a lot of modern cosmology...
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