1. the onotological proof
... universe as it destroyed the idea of infinities and supported Aquinas, Leibniz and Craig's arguments calling for a beginning of the universe. In response to the cosmological argument critics like Bertrand Russell and Hume reject the principal of causality and labels the cosmological argument as coldly philosophical. If the cosmological argument can ask the question "who made the world?" why cannot one ... a cause therefore it is actually possible. Hume also felt we never had a right to assume that cause/effect had taken place as we are simply observing a sequence of events. Bertrand Rus...
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