The cosmological argument for the existence of God.

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A) The cosmological argument is to prove the existence of God. In this type of argument we are looking at cause and not design. This type of argument is an aposteriori argument because it is based upon experience. Thomas Aquinas puts the key ideas into 3 ways. First way is, motion/change. Nothing can move by itself or change itself. The first thing to have moved must have been moved by something else and that thing …

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…that the universe is getting bigger suggests that there was a starting point, which is the big bang. But the big bang is only a theory and hasn't been proven. One of the main strengths of the cosmological argument is that how could any thing come from nothing. If using the big bang theory, how did the big bang happen itself? I believe in 1 God but think that the weaknesses are stronger than the strengths.