What is the Cosmological Argument? Julian Baggini for the Royal Institute of Philosophy

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In this video, Julian Baggini, Philosopher and Writer, talks about the cosmological argument for the existence of God.

[andrewguthrie]

The basic fallacy is in using simplistic word play to try to prove the existence of some preconceived idea of a god based on primitive, incomplete observations, rather than looking at the facts as we know them today and describe by inference what led to them, which coincidentally is what scientists are trying to do.

[HamidSain]

I am very surprised at a modern philosophical thinking to accept the cosmological non-event of infinite regress😳

[ponscremator]

All due respect to Prof. Baggini, this presentation is embarrassing. Any serious study of arguments for theism must engage with premodern epistemological and metaphysical frameworks; addressing them in the anachronistic manner he does so here only mutilates the reasoning to the point that no serious judgment can be made on them (positive or negative). Hume was a clever chap, but he was not a serious student of ancient or medieval thought, and to flippantly dismiss these arguments on his authority itself resembles a kind of fideism that any critical mind ought to reject.

[beammeupscotty]

more important, what us ULTIMATE BS, especially in a capitalistic system

[aaronmueller]

3:00 Wow, I didn't expect this to be this bad.

To put it simply, he has presented a complete strawman of "the Cosmological argument". As was said in the video, there are many different versions of the argument, but no version has the premise "Everything must have a cause". You will not find that premise in any of the Cosmological Arguments put forward by theistic philosophers, including Aristotle, Al-ghazali, Aquinas, Scotus, Leibniz, Clarke, Taylor, Swinburne, Craig, Pruss, Feser, Rasmussen, etc.

[beammeupscotty]

more important, what us ULTIMATE BS, especially in a capitalistic system