Background

Question 1

Plato and Aristotle postulated the need for what?

Answer 1

a craftsman for the universe and a First Unmoved Mover (Prime Mover)

Question 2

Both P and A started their arguments with what?

Answer 2

the fact of motion which needs a prior agency to motivate it
-this mover would need no further mover

Question 3

Argument is based on what?

Answer 3

The idea of causation - law of cause and effect

Question 4

By accepting the Big Bang took place we reject what?

Answer 4

The idea of infinite regress (the suggestion that the universe has always existed)

Question 5

If the chain on events does not go on forever there must be what?

Answer 5

A Firs Cause which is outside the universe and is non-physical (spiritual), Non-time bound (eternal) and non-contingent (necessary -cannot not exist)