The ‘Big Bang’ Argument for the Existence of God

Philo 1 (1):95-104 (1998)
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Some believe that evidence for the big bang is evidence for the existence of god. Who else, they ask, could have caused such a thing? In this paper, I evaluate the big bang argument, compare it with the traditional first-cause argument, and consider the relative plausibility of various natural explanations of the big bang.

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10.5840/philo1998118

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