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State and Assess Two Different Objections to the Cosmological Argument.
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State and Assess Two Different Objections to the Cosmological Argument The three main versions of the cosmological argument are the kalam argument, the chain of causes argument and the argument from contingency. The two objections to the cosmological argument that I will state and assess in this essay both object to the argument from contingency. I have chosen to focus on objections to this version of the argument because I believe it to be the most persuasive and the most open to criticism of the three. Leibniz first posited the Argument from contingency and his line of thought can be summed up as follows. Everything that is contingent in the universe must have a reason. That reason can be either contingent or necessary. If it is contingent then it must have a reason. This sequence continues until ultimately a necessary reason (or being) is reached, this necessary being is God1. The...
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