An Examination of the Cosmological
Grand Canyon University: PHI-403
, Argument Paper 2
There is a question that has been a puzzling man since the beginning of time, what came
first the chicken or the egg? When do we think about God and the universe the argument arises if
God does not exist then who made the universe? This is the first cause argument in cosmological
terms. In William Rowe, “An Examination of the Cosmological paper" he writes generally that
all of our realty needs an explanation for why it exists. This explanation must be a being like
God; therefore, God exists.
Everything has a cause nothing just happens and from the cause, there is always an effect.
We hear this cosmological argument spoken by the character Merovingian in the hit movie “The
Matrix, Merovingian: But do you? You think you do, but you do not. You are here because you
were sent here, you were told to come here, and then you obeyed. [chuckles] It is of course the
way of all things. You see, there is only one constant, one universal, it is the only real truth:
causality. Action, reaction. Cause, effect.Morpheus speaks the counterpoint: Everything begins
with a choice. Merovingian responds: Please, ma Cherie, I have already told you: we are all
victims of causality. I drank too much wine; I must take a piss. Cause and effect. Au
revoir”Andrew Paul Wachowski & Larry Wachowski, 2003.
So, looking at nature and the universe we see it must have a first cause, who started the
cosmos? Scientists agree that the universe began with the big bang, but what started the big
bang? What was the first cause of the big bang? I like the kalam argument or the Merovingian
statement that there must be a causality (God). (His omnipotent) created the Action, (by his
omnipotent) created the reaction. The Cause was the (big bang), the effect was (the universe was
born).I submit that there must be a supernatural being that existed before the big bang that started
everything, this causality is called Creatio Ex Nihilo which says the literal creation of something
out of nothing.
The counterargument is who or what caused God? The Creatio ExMateria argument says
that there was a cosmic rearrangement of preexisting physical matter that changed from one form
to another, this thought that the molecules that created the universe already always existed but in
a different form, there were cosmic atoms and that existed before the big bang and from this
sudden expansion of energy the cause created the explosion we call the big bang which effected