Even Dawkins has considered whether humans are 'indeed so weak in nature that society would break down without religion.'3 .
"Belief, practise and custom, whatever the personal or communal convictions are all shared in act and expression throughout the world".4 The expression of religious belief has always been integrated into human culture. However today it is considered necessary to debate and question any data we are given, to place it with what we may hold to be the truth. A common format of Plato's work was to propose a dilemma and discuss the issue from characterised viewpoints. 'Socrates provided the inspiration for this by engaging people in conversation to question the basis for their beliefs.'5 Through directing a line of inquiry, the arguments for beliefs were subject to scrutiny and became considered to be a dilemma that needed to be examined.
"Outlining his initial version of the cosmological argument, Plato points out in Laws that things in the universe move or change."7 However motion or change in one thing, is caused by motion or change in another thing that affects it. To end the series of causes we must perceive that motion or change must originate in an initial self-moved mover. Plato believed this mover to be the source of change in motion in all that has ever been. Plato noted that there is necessity 'to end the series of causes,' one might perceive this to be a primitive version of Leibniz's logic that there must be a sufficient reason for the initiation of a series. Plato's view therefore arguably sparked the debate into whether the possibility of infinite regression should be accepted or rejected. Discussions of the causal doctrine are prominent within numerous philosophical works. F. C. Copleston argued from Plato that also mere existence can be argued from a said cause, and the argument from contingence stems from this idea.
