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 The '''cosmological argument''' is an argument that everything in existence must have a cause except for one first cause (which is what we call God).
+== Versions of the argument ==
+===Kalam cosmological arguement===
+Premise 1: Whatever begins to exist has a cause.
+Premise 2: The universe began to exist.
+Premise 3: Therefore, the universe has a cause.
+Conclusion: Therefore, God is the cause of the universe.
+===Leibnizian cosmological argument===
+Premise 1: Anything that exists has an explanation of its existence, either in the necessity of its own nature or in an external explanation.
+Premise 2: The universe has an explanation for its existence, and that explanation is grounded in a necessary being.
+Premise 3: The universe exists.
+Premise 4: Therefore, the universe has an explanation of its existence (from 1, 3).
+Premise 5: Therefore, the explanation of the existence of the universe is grounded in a necessary being (from 2, 4).
+Conclusion: Therefore, God (a necessary being) exists.
 ==Objections To Cosmological arguement and Rebuttals==
-{{sbs|Who created God? | Fails to realize that uncaused-causer isn't an opinion, it's a necessity, also God exists outside space and time.}}
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