Comment on the attached reading in at least five sentences
Answer some of the following questions about Samuel Clarke’s cosmological argument in at least 5 sentences. What observations or questions do you have about the reading? Do you think that something can come from nothing? If not, then where did the universe come from? If something cannot come from nothing, then does this drive you to believe in God (or something similar) as the origin of all that exists? If some eternal and self-existing being actually exists, what is it like? Can we know? Be sure to ground your answers in the reading.
The Cosmological Argument by Samuel Clarke
The main observation made from the reading is that of existence of beings. That all the things in the universe must have existed out of causation and therefore the article refutes the common atheist claims that something existed without a cause. What exists in the universe has a cause towards its existence and therefore something must have existed before it so as to cause its existence. This eternal being is believed to be God, or something else of an equal measure, existence from eternity. The biggest puzzle to for all mankind to comprehend is that of eternal existence, a trait attributable to God that no man has ever disputed. It is absolutely untrue that something came from nothing because every existence must have a cause and this cause means something else, of independent and eternal existence must have caused the finite thing to exist.