ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the cosmological argument, which is the second kind of argument in Immanuel Kant's classification. The first and less fundamental kind of cosmological argument starts from the fact of motion, or the fact of change. It argues that this motion or change must be brought about by something, and this by something else, until one reaches a first cause of motion, which is God. The more fundamental version of the cosmological argument, which are considering, is often put in the following way. It is supposed that it is just a contingent fact that there is a universe, that is, the universe is contingent. The universe seems too large, and planet too tiny a part of it, for God to be sufficiently concerned about it to have sent his only son to redeem it. There is an analogical argument to the effect that a planet resembling will have life on it as does.
