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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: ...
As long as the question of beginnings is unanswered, we will always feel half-begun and a mystery to ourselves.
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 ...
Dialogue: Cosmological Arguments for the Existence of God: An Introduction, Edition 5. Dialogue: Proof and Probability in Arguing for God’s Existence, Edition 9.
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 ...
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 ...
Some physicists argue that the only way to make sense of it is to turn to anthropic reasoning—the argument that our universe is one of many, and that its conditions are the way they are simply because ...