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    The world possesses a cause for its beginning — Carmelics
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    The world possesses a cause for its beginning

    CausationNatural Theology
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    • 1.Every being which begins to exist has a cause for its beginning
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    • 2.The world is a being which begins to exist
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    • 1.The principle 'every being that begins to exist has a cause' is derived inductively from finite, intra-cosmic observations.
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    • 2.Applying inductive generalizations derived from within the universe to the universe's own origin commits a category error.
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    • 3.Therefore, the causal principle cannot be legitimately extended to the beginning of the universe itself.
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    • 1.Quantum vacuum fluctuations demonstrate that physical events can occur without deterministic prior causes, as Krauss and Vilenkin argue.
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    • 2.If causation is not universally necessary even within the universe, premise P1 lacks the universality required to ground the argument.
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    • 3.The logical necessity of P1 therefore collapses into a contingent empirical generalization insufficient to establish a cosmological conclusion.
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    Avicenna’s cosmological argument from the contingency of the world contrasts with another major type of argument for God’s existence in Islamic natural theology, one that aims to demonstrate the existence of God from the beginning of the world in time. Al-Ghazali (1056-1111), in The Incoherence of the Philosophers, develops this type of argument in two steps. The first aims to establish, against a prominent Aristotelian tradition, that the world is not eternal but has a beginning in time. The se
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