The Cosmological Argument Quiz

What is the main claim of cosmological arguments?

• God's existence can be established as the required explanation of what exists.

• The universe is infinite and has no beginning.

• Everything in the universe is contingent.

• The universe is a necessary being.

What does Aquinas mean by 'motion' in his first way?

• The flow of time.

• Physical movement from one place to another.

• Any kind of change.

• The rotation of celestial bodies.

What type of causation does Aquinas' second way focus on?

• Final causation

• Efficient causation

• Sustaining causation

• Temporal causation

According to Aquinas, what is required to explain a sustaining series?

• An infinite number of secondary causes

• A primary cause

• A temporal sequence

• A contingent being

What does Leibniz's principle of sufficient reason state?

• God is the only necessary being.

• There is a sufficient reason for every true fact or assertion.

• Every event must have a cause.

• The universe is infinite.

What is the fallacy of composition?

• Assuming the universe is finite.

• Assuming what is true of the parts is true of the whole.

• Believing in an infinite regress of causes.

• Denying the existence of God.

What does Hume argue about the concept of a necessary being?

• It is logically necessary.

• It is metaphysically necessary.

• It is inconceivable and meaningless.

• It is empirically proven.

What is a key element of Christian theology that contingency arguments aim to establish?

• God's benevolence

• God's necessity

• God's omniscience

• God's omnipresence

What does Aquinas' third way focus on?

• Temporal sequences

• Motion

• Contingency

• Causation

What does Hume's fork suggest about the causal principle?

• It is a necessary truth.

• It is a synthetic truth.

• It is an empirical truth.

• It is an analytic truth.