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The First Cause Argument. An explanation of the argument that the universe would not have come into existence unless there were some being that caused it to do so. ... The first cause argument (or “cosmological argument”) takes the existence of the universe to entail the existence of a being that created it.
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A survey of objections to the First Cause Argument for the existence of God. ... The first cause argument is the argument that everything that has a beginning of its existence has a cause, that the universe has a beginning of its existence, and that the universe therefore has a cause. This cause, unless it too has a cause,
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Primum movens - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Primum movens (Latin), in English usually referred to as the First Cause , is a term used in the philosophical and theological cosmological argument for the existence of God, and in thinking about ...
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If there is no first cause, then the universe is like a great chain with many links; each link is held up by the link above it, but the whole chain is held up by nothing. ... Why must there be a first cause? Because if there isn't, then the whole universe is unexplained, and we have violated our Principle of Sufficient...
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Cosmological argument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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2. First Cause ... One of Aquinas' arguments for the existence of God is called the first-cause argument. It proceeds something like this: every effect has a cause. The universe is an effect. Therefore the universe has a cause. That cause is God.
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The Cosmological Argument, also known as the First Cause Argument, is one of the most important arguments for the existence of God, not only because it is one of the more convincing, but also because it is one of the most used.
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The First Cause version of the Cosmological Argument (as opposed to the first mover version of it) goes as follows: ... Because God is not simply the first cause; God is, in addition, omnipotent, omniscient, wholly good, and a lot of other things that are essential to being God.
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Incorporating Aristotle's notion of a "prime mover" into Summa Theologica and elsewhere, Thomas Aquinas famously formulated his version of the cosmological or "first cause" argument. According to this argument, the things which we see around us now are the products of a series of previous causes.
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