As long as the question of beginnings is unanswered, we will always feel half-begun and a mystery to ourselves.

Called the Cosmological Argument from Contingency, this is a slightly different take on the First-Cause Argument. The German philosopher Gottfried Leibniz put it best when he wrote, ...

The Cosmological Argument. The idea of a cosmological argument is to move from certain known effects to God as their cause. To construct such an argument, we need a principle of causality: ...

Craig presents a version of the cosmological argument (Reichenbach, 2017). He presupposes the truth of determinism, which is the idea that everything happens for a cause (not necessarily a reason ...

Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Multiverse. Essentially, the researchers used an “anthropic cosmological” argument—the notion that our very existence ensures that the universe has a set of ...

The Argument from Design This argument differs from the others we have considered in that it does not depend on any exotic or potentially controversial metaphysical assumptions. The ontological ...

'Kalam Cosmological Argument' Doesn't Prove God's Existence . Ethan Siegel Big Think April 4, 2025 Wikimedia Commons We know that everything in the Universe, as it exists today, arose from some ...

The cosmological constant is presumably an enigmatic form of matter or energy that acts in opposition to gravity and is considered by many physicists to be equivalent to dark energy. Nobody really ...