Arguments For God? - The Cosmological Argument  Hey, welcome to the Atheism UK podcast, this week we look at one of the apologetic arguments for god. The one we discuss today is ‘The Cosmological Argument’ for god.  Religious Apologetics is not new. One of the most common philosophical arguments for the existence of god is called 'The Cosmological Argument,' which can be traced back to Aristotle and beyond.   It was further developed in the early Christian period, then during the 9th to 12th century through medieval Islamic theology and then revived in medieval Christian theology in the 13th Century by Saint Thomas Aquinas, an Italian Dominican friar and Catholic priest.  There are a couple of versions of the cosmological argument worth noting, one stronger than the other. The Cosmological Argument (promoted by Thomas Aquinas) is a philosophical argument which is inductive, meaning its aim is to persuade rather than prove that the cause of the universe is what we call God. In its simplest form it goes something like this:  1 - Everything that exists has a cause. 2 - The Universe exists. 3 - The Universe therefore has a cause 4 - The cause being God.  We look at the flaws in this argument. We also go into the Kalām Cosmological Argument and the extension of that same argument popularised by William Lane Craig  More information:  The Atheism UK Website: https://www.atheismuk.com/

Driven Beyond Belief: The (Kalām) Cosmological Argument: https://www.drivenbeyondbelief.com/on-the-existence-of-god-part-3-the-kalam-cosmological-argument/

Debate between William Lane Craig and theoretical physicist at Caltech Sean Carroll: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5iiHV4yo7M&t=0s