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The Cosmological Argument has 2 premises. The first premise states that a being is either made by itself or is made by another, while the second premise states that not every being can be a dependent being. The reason for this second argument is that if each being is dependent on another being than there has to be a first being that was independent or the cause of the dependent being. I do not fully agree with the last premise because if every individual being is caused by the being before than that explains that beings come from other dependent beings. There does not have to be a independent being but a being that was dependent to create another being. Rowe also talks about the ideas of the Buddhist religion and what contingency is. They believe that God is a logical being and believe in a logical argument. However, they do not believe that there are always strict understandings and answers to every question. I believe that ,just as Buddha has taught, there are more complex ideas of God and logical reasoning that do not have strict, concrete answers. Is there a way to bring the idea of God into logical, black and white ideas that we have today, which are based mostly on science,that give more complex understandings of reason and ultimate reality?

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  1. AnonymousSeptember 19, 2017 at 4:31 PM

    I appreciate your mentioning of Buddha's teachings of God as being a complex idea lacking concrete answers. I also question the necessity and even possibility of bringing these ideas into the logical, black and white structures we do apply in modern understanding.

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