... conclusion - P1 Whatever comes into being has a cause P2 The Universe came into being C The universe must have a cause If the premises are agreed with then the conclusion must be correct. If something can not be the cause of its own existence it must have been caused by something else and that by something else again. The chain continues, something being caused by something else and something else again, until a self causing, necessary being is reached. The most famous form of the argument was created by St Thomas Aquinas' which was published in Summa Theologica. He felt he could prove the existence of God in Five Ways which are all a posteriori, as their starting points all begin from observation or experience from the universe. The first three are Cosmological Arguments, the fourth a form of Ontological Argument and the fifth a Teleological Argument. The First way is ...

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