ContestedTH-000008
The universe has a cause of its existence.
The thesis asserts that the universe’s existence, including its finite past, requires a cause external to the universe.
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4 theses with status Contested
The thesis asserts that the universe’s existence, including its finite past, requires a cause external to the universe.
The thesis claims that the existence of objective moral values and duties provides evidence for a maximally great, personal, transcendent being as their grounding.
The thesis claims that a maximally great, personal, transcendent being (possessing omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence) cannot coexist with genuine libertarian human free will, making maximal greatness incoherent.
The thesis claims that a maximally great, personal, transcendent deity exists as the ultimate ground of reality. The claim is contested, with philosophical arguments both supporting and challenging it, notably cosmological/ontological reasoning versus the divine hiddenness problem.
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