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The First Cause Argument (797 words) |
 | There seem, at first glance, to be two possibilities: either we eventually reach the first event in the series, the cause at the beginning of the universe that set everything going, or there is no first event in the series and the past stretches back into infinity. |
| The first cause argument tells us that the second of these is not possible, that the past cannot stretch back into infinity but rather must have a beginning. |
| There are several objections to the first cause argument, but if it is successful then it establishes the existence of a Creator that transcends time. |
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Cosmological argument - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2140 words) |
| The phrase "first cause" is sometimes used as an alternative noun for God among individuals uncomfortable with the historical and religious meanings associated with the term. |
| According to the cosmological argument, the cause of the first event would necessarily be a being which is capable of causing other events, but which is not itself caused. |
| An early argument for the finite age of universe (and hence the first cause) was based on the second law of thermodynamics and growth of entropy. |
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