RELIGION AND LIFE 

1 - BELIEVING IN GOD

Causation argument - 

Causation - the process of one thing causing another 

For - 

• eg: a driver pressing the brake pedal causes the effect of the car slowing down 
• Cause and effect = basic feature of world 
• Universe and humans must have had a cause 
• God = only logical cause - must exist
• Explains how and why we're here 
• Fits with out common sense - can't believe something came from nothing 
• Fits with science - Universe (an effect) must have a cause (God) 

Against - 

• God would need a cause 
• Matter may be eternal (never created), process of causes could go back forever, not to God 
• Universe could have been there for forever, just because everything in it needs an explanation doesn't mean the universe does too 
• First Cause doesn't have to be a God of a specific religion - could be good, evil, mixture, several gods etc