Reference work
Cosmological Argument
Academic reference article surveying cosmological arguments from contingency, causation, sufficient reason, and beginnings.
- Publisher
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
- Tradition
- Philosophy of religion
- Accessed
- 2026-06-16
Citation
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Cosmological Argument,” accessed June 16, 2026.
Where this source is used
- Who created God?The cosmological arguments do not claim that everything needs a cause. They claim that dependent things do, and ask what could end the chain.
- Contingency and creationScience explains one state of the world by an earlier one. It cannot say why there is anything to study, and a self-existent ground answers that better than a brute fact.