Everything has a cause, and God in particular

This argument is used in the debate : Does God exist?.

This argument is an objection to : Atheism posits a primordial energy whose origin it can never explain. and God is the first cause of the universe.

Keywords: Cosmological argument, First cause, God

Summary

The first cause argument is a paralogism.

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« If everything must have a cause, then God must have a cause. If there is something that has no cause, it can be the world as well as God, so this argument has no value. »

Bertrand Russell, « Why I'm not a Christian », Marriage and morality, 10/18, 1997

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