The Cosmological Argument (St Anne's)

AS RS (OCR) Philosophy of Religion revision video

Category:

Education

Tags:

• cosmological
• Aquinas
• Five
• Ways
• Russell
• Copleston
• sufficient
• reason
• Hume

[pdobbing]

Video done for students at St Anne's Sixth Form College, Southampton, UK.

[theBartone9119]

**Arm Moves**....What caused that? "Signal sent to my arm from my brain" What caused that? "My brain" what caused that? "Me being born", What caused that? " My parents having sex" what caused that "Them meeting at a book store" what caused that? "My dad leaving his place and my mom leaving hers" what caused that? See? This could go back forever, only, the universe had a beginning meaning the universe must be an uncaused event, this is the only way to stop the problem of infinite regress.

[theBartone9119]

Cosmological Argument = Logical Fallacy

It’s actually only logical that there must be uncaused events otherwise every event/cause would rest upon an infinite regress of preceding causes. Since we know the universe had a beginning, it’s only logical to accept the likelihood that The Big Bang was an uncaused event.

[MomoTheBellyDancer]

@alainareneex

"Everything that is finite has come into existance at one point."

Yes, in the existing universe. But all those "finite" things are simply concepts we give labels such as "star", "chair" or "I". When do they really begin to exist? When did I begin? When the sperm and the egg met? When they were created themselves? The problem gets much worse with the beginning of EVERYTHING. We can't simply impose the same logic on that.

[alainareneex]

@MomoTheBellyDancer not exactly. Everything that is finite has come into existance at one point. For something finite to come into existance, it needs to have a cause. And that cause must also have a cause itself, and that cause... so on and so forth. There must be a final cause at the end of this line, and that cause is God. God is infinite, He has no cause because He's always been there. Not an effect of something. I apologize if this is too difficult for you to understand.

[MomoTheBellyDancer]

So you're basically claiming that everything needs a cause, so you introduce a cause that ... has no cause itself. Self-refuting much?

[De4sher]

@1GodOnlyOne then we can just throw out any hope of ever using the word "to know" in a manner that makes sense.

tell me, what means "to know" for you?

and after you answer, please try to separate what you "know" from what any random crazy person in the sanitarium "knows"..... do that and you'll get a nobel prize from me.

acting like you know, when you don't even have a clue what words mean, isn't really impressive.

[1GodOnlyOne]

@De4sher You don't know that we don't know.

In reality, we DO know.