weaknesses / criticism

Cards (4)

  • How does the fallacy of composition criticise the cosmological argument?
    uses deductive reasoning incorrectly
  • What does Bertrand Russell sum up with the fallacy of composition ?
    You cannot say the universe has a cause just because contingent things have a cause
  • What is the scientific theory and what does it say?
    Steady state theory - universe is eternal which discredits Aquinas's argument
  • How does the big bang theory go against the cosmological argument?
    Does not need explaining - brute fact