1. Cosmological Argument Essay planning
Use the key ideas to plan the following essays

2. Aquinas - introduction
A posteriori
Inductive
Plato and Aristotle
Aquinas - introduction
Leibniz – ‘Principle of sufficient reason’
Aquinas’s first way – First mover
Aquinas’ second way
First cause
Aquinas’ third way and Copleson
Contingency and necessity
Kalam – William Lane Craig – rejects actual infinity using the library example
Kalam – Ed Miller – world exists but can’t cause itself or be part of an infinity series so must be caused by something uncaused. Also, all contingent things have the cause, the universe is contingent so the universe has a cause.
David Hume – fallacy of composition, no experience, cause not God
Immanuel Kant – God beyond human sense experience and understanding, can’t apply cause and effect beyond sense exprience
Bertrand Russell – a being can’t be necessary, Quantum Mechanics, Fallacy of Composition, Brute fact
The Big Bang theory – start of the universe was random action of quantum particles – not God
Steady State theory – no first cause, the universe has always been in existence
Anthony Kenny - used Newton’s First Law of Motion to wreck the first way – animals can move themselves and don’t need a mover

3. Questions Examine how the Cosmological Argument attempts to prove God
Examine the following ideas in the cosmological argument: first cause, motion, contingency, and sufficient reason
Examine the arguments against the cosmological argument for the existence of God.
Examine the contributions to the cosmological argument made by Aquinas, Craig and Miller, and Leibniz.
Examine the Cosmological Argument for the existence of God