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Cosmological argument
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Who put forward the idea that the universe is a 'brute fact'?
Russell
Kant
Swinburne
Hume
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Who said 'there is no case known in which a thing is found to be the efficient cause of itself'
Swinburne
Hick
Aquinas
Russell
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What is Aquinas' second way?
motion
contingency
causation
necessity
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Finish the quote "the series must start with something..."
since nothing can come from nothing
an unmoved mover
an uncaused causer
a necessary being
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Why can an inductive argument be rejected?
the conclusion is only plausible
the premises are not necessarily true or false
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What does Craig's Kalaam argument reject?
laws of physics
God of Classical theism
An infinite past
The idea of evil
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What did Leibniz attempt to answer?
Can the universe have a beginning, or can it be eternal?
'why is there something rather than nothing?'
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Why can we reject an inductive argument?
it draws upon empirical evidence
the conclusion is only plausible
we just know the premises are false
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Why did Hume rebut the cosmological argument?
we have no experience of causes
Brute fact
it's a contradiction
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According to the Kalaam argument, the cause of the universe must be what?
the Bang Bang
God
a being who freely chooses to create the world
series of contingent beings
