In the philosophy of religion, a cosmological argument is an argument for the existence of God based upon observational and factual statements concerning...
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The Kalam cosmological argument is a modern formulation of the cosmological argument for the existence of God. It is named after the Kalam (medieval Islamic...
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The Kalām Cosmological Argument is a 1979 book by the philosopher William Lane Craig, in which the author offers a contemporary defense of the Kalām cosmological...
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Existence of God (redirect from Argument against the existence of God)
The cosmological argument is an a posteriori argument for a cause or reason for the cosmos. One type of cosmological, or "first cause" argument, typically...
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Theology of Biola University. Craig has updated and defended the Kalam cosmological argument for the existence of God. He has also published work where he argues...
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Infinite regress (redirect from The regress argument in epistemology)
network. Infinite regress arguments have been made in various areas of philosophy. Famous examples include the cosmological argument and Bradley's regress...
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contrasted the ontological argument (literally any argument "concerned with being") with the cosmological and physio-theoretical arguments. According to the Kantian...
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Fine-tuned universe (redirect from Finetuning argument)
order in the universe. He argues that the Kalam Cosmological Argument strengthens the teleological argument by answering the question "Who designed the Designer...
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Five Ways (Aquinas) (category Philosophical arguments)
considered to be cosmological arguments. Aquinas omitted various arguments he believed to be insufficient or unsuited, such as the ontological argument made by...
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javelin argument, credited to Lucretius, is an ancient logical argument that the universe, or cosmological space, must be infinite. The javelin argument was...
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In cosmology, the cosmological constant (usually denoted by the Greek capital letter lambda: Λ), alternatively called Einstein's cosmological constant...
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reasoning Argument map Bayes' theorem Belief bias Boolean logic Cosmological argument Evidence-based policy Logical reasoning Practical arguments Semantic...
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Religion, and New Testament studies. He is a proponent of the Kalam Cosmological Argument for the existence of God. He is an elected Fellow of the International...
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teleological argument was later presented by the early Islamic philosophers Alkindus and Averroes, while Avicenna presented both the cosmological argument and...
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Anthropic principle (redirect from The Anthropic Cosmological Principle)
contributed by a cosmological constant. Steven Weinberg gave an anthropic explanation for this fact: he noted that the cosmological constant has a remarkably...
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possible to prove, philosophically, creation theory. The Kalam cosmological argument held that creation was provable, for example. Maimonides himself...
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Creatio ex nihilo (category Physical cosmology)
modern arguments for the existence of God among Christian and other theistic philosophers, especially as articulated in the cosmological argument and its...
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Cosmogony (category Physical cosmology)
the distinction between cosmogony and cosmology is blurred. For example, in theology, the cosmological argument for the existence of God (pre-cosmic cosmogonic...
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Religious interpretations of the Big Bang theory (category Religious cosmologies)
physical cosmological paradigm, there have been a variety of reactions by religious groups regarding its implications for religious cosmologies. Some accept...
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Borde–Guth–Vilenkin theorem (category Physical cosmology)
theorem in my papers and to you personally very accurately." Kalam cosmological argument Gibbons–Hawking–York boundary term Gibbons–Hawking effect Penrose–Hawking...
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Babylonian cosmology Biblical names of stars Chronology of the Bible Classical planet Cosmogony Cosmological argument Creationist cosmologies Flat Earth...
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Human Knowledge, sect. 25. Leftow, Brian (1989). "A Leibnizian Cosmological Argument". Philosophical Studies. 57 (2): 135–155. doi:10.1007/BF00354595...
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Proof of the Truthful (category Arguments for the existence of God)
argument; some say that it is ontological while others say it is cosmological. The argument is outlined in Avicenna's various works. The most concise and...
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argument by itself may not give a reason to believe in the existence of God, but in combination with other arguments such as cosmological arguments and...
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Various primary arguments from cosmology and the nature of causation are often offered to support the cosmological argument. Teleological argument – Argues that...
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KCA may refer to: IATA code for Kuqa Qiuci Airport, China Kalam Cosmological Argument KCA DEUTAG, oil and gas services company Kenya College of Accountancy...
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Watchmaker analogy (redirect from Watchmaker argument)
that such an inductive argument is not accepted as science because it is unfalsifiable. Existence of God Cosmological argument Genetic algorithm God of...
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state; and, as Parmenides said, "nothing comes from nothing". The cosmological argument, later attributed to Aristotle, thereby draws the conclusion that...
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Copernican principle (redirect from Copernican cosmology)
is a working assumption that arises from a modified cosmological extension of Copernicus' argument of a moving Earth. Hermann Bondi named the principle...
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to find answers in classic philosophical arguments for the existence of God (e.g. the Cosmological Argument, which reasons that God must exist based on...
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