|Arguments For the Existence of God| |Arguments For Belief:| The
cosmological argument, or "first cause" argument, takes the
existence of the universe to entail the existence of a being
that created it. It does so based on the fact that the universe
had a beginning. There must, the first cause argument says, be
something that caused that beginning, a first cause of the
universe. The cause is assumed to be God. There is also a
specific form known as the kalam argument. The argument runs
like this: - Everything that exists must have a cause. - If you
follow the chain of events backwards through time, it cannot go
back infinitely, so eventually you arrive at the first cause. -
This cause must, itself, be uncaused. - But nothing can exist
without a cause, except for God. - Therefore, God exists. The
most concise answer to this argument is: "Who created God?",
which in turn raises the question "Who created God's creator?",
and so on ad infinitum. This is also related to the phrase "It's
turtles all the way down".