the cosmological argument was derived by Thomas Aquinas
the third way of Aquinas' argument is from contingency
Aquinas' third way:
matter = contingent: it is caused + comes into being
therefore at one point in time, there was nothing in existence
without an uncaused causer it would be impossible for anything to start to exist
therefore we need to accept a being whose existence is necessary
this being is God
the cosmological IS VALUABLE as proof of God:
Gerry Hughes: argued we should redefine proof as 'overwhelming probability', citing the example of quarks (molecules that have never been seen but their existence is overwhelmingly probable) - in the same way no one has viewed God yet a transcendent God is overwhelmingly probable as the cause of the universe
the cosmological argument IS NOT VALUABLE as proof of God:
