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    The cosmological argument (i) Examine the view that the cosmological argument provides an explanation for the world and is a trustworthy basis for belief in the existence of God. (21) The cosmological argument, also known as the first cause argument, is a classical argument for the existence of God. The word cosmological comes from the Greek for order and it is an inductive argument as the premises are true but the conclusion may not be, and it is also synthetic where the truth is determined

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    come from Celtic rituals. Celtics believed the cosmological myth of Saman (Lord of the Dead). Saman would call on the souls of the people that passed away that year to take them to the afterlife or underworld; the Celtic underworld identifies with the Christian Hell. In order for the spirits to believe they were on their own, the living would wear costumes and mask their identities, along with fairies, witches and demons. This functions as a cosmological myth because it provides a creation story and

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    Cosmological Argument

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    doubtful. The ontological, cosmological, and teleological arguments supporting the existence of God do not provide empirical evidence that can be decisively attributed to a deity of any sort. The ontological argument proposed by Anselm in which God can be proven to exist through reasoning alone is flawed. Unlike the argument suggests, you cannot simply think something into existence by ascribing that thing with the property of existence as Immanuel Kant pointed out. The cosmological argument is more sound

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    Cosmological Report

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    The theory of how things came to be is the predominant cosmological model for the universe from the most punctual known periods however its ensuing huge scale development. The model records for the way that the universe extended from a high thickness and high temperature state On the off chance that space and fanciful time are for sure like the surface of the Earth, there wouldn't be any singularities in the non-existent time bearing, at which the laws of material science would separate. Also, there

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    Firstly, the universe is a large and unforgiving place, with limitless things that we have yet to understand. The cosmological argument argues that the universe is so complex that something or someone with great power had to design it. Then cosmological argument although a scientific hypothesis, visibly confirms a very important element of Christianity, that God is the undeniable author of the universe. In fact, this argument is based

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    derived him away from the holy life. Eventually, later as the years passed Aquinas succeeded in becoming a Dominican, and proved to be a very talented philosopher. In his effort to prove the existence of god Aquinas came up with many theories. The Cosmological argument pursues to prove God’s existence based on the first point that there is a universe and a world we live in. ’Why is there something rather than nothing?’ The argument itself is a posteriori – which

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    The strategy used by Cosmological arguments for God based on contingency begins with things exist because they are necessary and or they are contingent. Something that is necessary is something that cannot have failed to exist. Math can be used as an example as a necessary thing. For example, 2+2=4 in our world right now. If the world was different 2+2 would still equal 4. Something that is contingent is not necessary. Things that are not necessary is something that could have failed to exist. My

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    Descartes’ First Proof of the Existence of God tend to be variety of cosmological argument made in meditation 3, where he is saying that if God did not exist than where did the idea of God come from in our minds(Descartes, p.78).This idea of God has a greater type of reality than those of other idea. This is kind of complex argument .For better understanding of this argument, he classified reality into two classes. The “formal reality” which is the degree of reality that something has and the “objective

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    example of this is cosmological natural selection, a theory supporting the existence of Parallel Universes. Endless possibilities emerge with the theory of cosmological natural selection, as stated by Scientific American. “If cosmological natural selection proves true, we would not live in a determined world, but in a changing cosmos with an open future.” With this, the multiverse can expand and create even more unique universes while doing do, those with desired traits. Cosmological natural selection

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    of God, after seeing the arguments for God's existence thoroughly discredited, I am not entirely sure what to believe. The cosmological argument is one such argument supporting the existence of God. It is a posteriori, meaning that the versions of this argument are based on premises that can only be known to be true by means of experience of the world. In the cosmological arguments, all begin with the assumption that something

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