cosmological argument
noun Philosophy.
an argument for the existence of God, asserting that the contingency of each entity, and of the universe composed wholly of such entities, demands the admission of an adequate external cause, which is God.
Also called
cosmological proof.
Compare
first-cause argument.
Words nearby cosmological argument
cosmochemistry,
cosmodrome,
cosmogony,
cosmography,
cosmoid,
cosmological argument,
cosmological constant,
cosmological principle,
cosmological redshift,
cosmology,
cosmonaut
British Dictionary definitions for cosmological argument
cosmological argument
noun
philosophy
one of the arguments that purport to prove the existence of God from empirical facts about the universe, esp the argument to the existence of a first cause
Compare ontological argument (def. 1), teleological argument