Unit 2 - Nature of reality: First Cause argument

Question 1

What is the First Cause argument AKA?

Answer 1

The cosmological argument

Question 2

What does the First Cause argument believe?

Answer 2

• There is no event in the natural world that doesn’t have a cause
• The universe must have a cause too
• Something must have triggered the process that started the development of the universe
• God is believed to be the cause of the universe
• God himself doesn’t have a cause

Question 3

What sort of being must have caused the universe to exist according to the First Cause argument?

Answer 3

• Non-physical (Spiritual)
• Non-timebound (Eternal)
• Non-caused (Necessary)
• (God)

Question 4

Domino example

Answer 4

Someone has to start by pushing over a line of dominoes, it can’t just fall by itself.

Question 5

Who is the philosopher who developed the First Cause argument?

Answer 5

Thomas Aquinas

Question 6

SWA for the First Cause argument

Answer 6

Genesis 1:1 - 'God created the heavens and the earth.'