Outline the ‘Cosmological Argument’ for the existence of God and access its claim to prove that God exists

Outline the ‘Cosmological Argument’ for the existence of God and access its claim to prove that God exists

The term ‘cosmological’ comes from the Greek words ‘kosmos’ and ‘logos’ translated as ‘cosmos’ synonymous with ‘universe’ and ‘Logos’ meaning ‘blueprint’ or ‘plan’. Therefore, ‘cosmology’ refers to the ‘blueprint of the universe’. The ‘Cosmological Argument’ is sometimes reffered to as the ‘causal argument’ or the ‘first cause argument’ and has many different versions that differ from person to person.

Although the basis for the cosmological argument lies with greek philosophy, it really was the Muslim philosophers of the middle ages who generated the debate of the argument to any extent. They developed the Kalam Cosmological Argument (‘Kalam’ meaning ‘speech’) and the group consisted of notable Muslim philosophers as al- Kindi and al-Ghazali.

One of the Kalam group’s important contributions was to consider...