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What caused Ted to miss his flight to
Chicago?Sort the cards.What was the first cause?
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1. On the subway, Marshall decides to run a marathon
   to get in shape Ted finds a lucky penny from
   1939
2. After finding the penny, Ted is invited to an
   interview for a high ranking architect job in
   Chicago
3. After much trying, Teds lucky penny sells for
   a measley 1.50 he uses it to buy some cheap hot
   dogs
4. The hot dog stand is in front of a wedding dress
   shop
5. Whilst eating the hot dogs, Ted tells Marshall
   that petroleum jelly stops Runners Chaffing
6. When Lily hears about the wedding dress sale she
   decides to camp outside the shop Robin joins her
7. Whilst camping out, a car alarm keeps Robin and
   Lily awake all night Robin goes to Teds
   apartment to try to sleep
8. Robin walks in on Marshall applying petroleum
   jelly to his nipples to prevent chaffing
9. Marshall is so surprised to be interrupted in the
   bathroom that he falls and breaks his toe
10. In the bar, Marshall shares his disappointed
    about the broken toe stopping him running the New
    York City Marathon
11. Barney arrives at the bar and ignores Marshalls
    disappointment he says running a marathon is
    easy, even without training
12. Marshall bets Barney that he cannot complete the
    marathon without training Barney accepts
13. Barney completes the New York City marathon quite
    easily, and shows no signs of being tired
14. After the race, Barney finds out that marathon
    runners can ride the subway for free
15. Barney gets stuck on the subway when he suddenly
    realises he is unable to move his legs he rings
    Ted for help
16. In a rush to rescue Barney from the train, Ted
    jumpes the subway turnstile and is tackled by a
    policeman
17. Teds court appearance for jumping a subway
    turnstile makes him late
18. Ted and Robin miss their flight to Chicago

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The curious case of Benjamin Button What caused
the accident?
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What caused Daisy to be hit by the cab?
What factors led up to Daisys accident?
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What caused Daisy to be hit by the cab?
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• The Cosmological Argument for the existence of
  God
• St Thomas Aquinas
• 1227-1274

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The Cosmological Argument

• The Universe and everything in it exists
• Everything that exists in the Universe has been
  caused
• There had to be a first cause of everything
• God is the first cause of the Universe

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Write up the argument in your books using the
prompts.
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Thomas Aquinas on Change and God

• In the cosmos as we experience it, it is obvious
  to us that some things change. Now whatever
  changes must be changed by another. And if that
  other itself change, then that too must be
  changed by another. But this cannot go on to
  infinity, because there would be no change going
  on at all. You eventually have to arrive at
  something that is Unchanging. This is God.
• Summa Theologiae I, 1,3

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One explanation of creation is found in the Bible

• Genesis is the first book of the Bible and gives
  a clear account of God creating the Universe God
  is the first cause

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The Genesis Account

• The Genesis story tells of God creating the world
  in 6 days and resting on the 7th humans were
  planned and important to Him

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Stephen Hawking is a Physicist at Cambridge
University

• He believes that the Universe was created at one
  point in time as a massive explosion (the Big
  Bang)
• As the Universe expanded and cooled, the right
  conditions arose for life to begin

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The Big Bang

• This idea suggests that the Universe was caused
  by natural events
• The Earth and our place on it seems to be a
  random act of chance

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Genesis account vs the Big Bang

• Does the Big Bang mean that God was not
  responsible for creation?
• Or
• Is God the being that cause the Big Bang to
  happen?

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God vs The Big Bang

• Where would a liberal Christian, a fundamentalist
  Christian, and an atheist fit into these three
  ideas about God as the first of all causes?
• Which of the three views do you think has the
  most merit and why?

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Pros
Cons
The argument is based on experience of the world
all we see does have a cause
The Universe just is it doesnt need to have
been caused
It is flexible it fits with both the Bible and
modern science
There wasnt necessarily a first cause the
Universe could be eternal
What are the pros and cons of the Cosmological
Argument?
God is the only eternal and unchanging being so
must be the first of all causes
Its a contradiction to say all things are caused
apart from God
Just because everything we see has a cause,
doesnt mean there has to be an overall reason or
plan to the world
Something must have started everything else off
its logical