Presentation on Cosmological Argument (A Level Edexcel Religious Studies)

Comprehensive Presentation that Covers: The Basic Argument, The God of Classical Theism, The Starting Point, Potentiality and Actuality, Aristotle and the Prime Mover, A Common Source, Aristotle, Material Cause, The Formal Cause, Efficient Cause, The Final Cause, The Prime Mover? Why Not an Efficient Cause? So Who Is the Prime Mover? So is this the God of Classical Theism? Aquinas, The Three Ways, Infinite Regress, 1st Argument: From Change (Motion), Wood and Fire, 2nd Argument: From Cause, An Uncaused Cause, 3rd Argument: from Contingency (Necessity), The Principle of Sufficient Reason, Contingent /Necessary, Copleston and Russell, Hume, Kant, Hume vs Russell vs Kant, Understandings of the Role of God, God as the Temporal First Cause, Two Types of Causes, Aquinas, God as the Sustainer of Motion, Causation and Existence, God as the Explanation of Why there is Something Rather than Nothing. Science- Anthony Kenny, Newton’s Law of Motion, The Steady-State Theory, The Big Bang Theory, The Kalam Cosmological Argument - Actual Infinite, Actual Infinite, Potential Infinite, An Argument of Two Halves, William Lane Craig, Ex Nihilo, Strengths, Value for Religious Faith, Natural Theology, Russell on Natural Theology, Fideism, Of Value and Of Limited or No Value.