The cosmological argument (Edexcel A-Level Religious Studies): Flashcards

Inductive argument

A Posteriori (based on experience)

Uses rational, scientific evidence to prove God

Argument from motion - unmoved mover

From potentiality to actuality

Impossible - must be a start

Argument from causation - uncaused causer

Argument from contingency - necessary being

Relies on something else for existence (e.g. food, parents)

Being that must exist; started chain of contingent beings

Establishes God's necessity

Part truth ≠ whole truth

Rejects the possibility

Something can come from nothing

Contingency args don't leap from parts to whole