... Finally I will argue that because of these two objections the cosmological argument is seriously weakened. To begin with, I will argue that it is unreasonable to make the jump from (1) to (2). Just because individual beings have a cause this does not mean that the whole has a cause. Hume gives a persuasive argument for this when he states that if we can account for every individual part, then we have sufficiently explained that whole. Hume writes that 'The uniting of several countries into one kingdom..... Is performed merely by an arbitrary act of the mind'2; I agree that if it is only an arbitrary act of the mind, then this weakens the argument. Bertrund Russell gives a swaying argument to support this objection. He argues that just because individual human beings have mothers, it does not mean that the world as a whole mother. Now I will argue ...

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