What caused Ted to miss his flight to Chicago?

Sort the cards.What was the first cause?

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, Ted’s ‘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 shop5. 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 her7. Whilst camping out, a car alarm keeps Robin and Lily awake all night; Robin

goes to Ted’s apartment to try to sleep8. Robin walks in on Marshall applying petroleum jelly to his nipples to

prevent chaffing9. Marshall is so surprised to be interrupted in the bathroom that he falls and

breaks his toe10. 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 Marshall’s disappointment; he says

running a marathon is easy, even without training12. Marshall bets Barney that he cannot complete the marathon without

training; Barney accepts13. Barney completes the New York City marathon quite easily, and shows no

signs of being tired14. After the race, Barney finds out that marathon runners can ride the subway

for free15. Barney gets stuck on the subway when he suddenly realises he is unable to

move his legs; he rings Ted for help16. In a rush to rescue Barney from the train, Ted jumpes the subway turnstile

and is tackled by a policeman17. Ted’s court appearance for jumping a subway turnstile makes him late18. Ted and Robin miss their flight to Chicago

The curious case of Benjamin Button – What caused the accident?

What caused Daisy to be hit by the cab?

What factors led

up to Daisy’s

accident?

What caused Daisy to be hit by the cab?Daisy was hit

by a cab

A woman in Parisrides in a cab

The cab got stuckat traffic lights

Daisy late outfrom rehearsal

CauseCauseCause

The Cosmological Argument for the existence of God

St Thomas Aquinas1227-1274

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

Write up the argument in your books using the prompts.

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

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

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

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

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

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?

The Universe hada beginning

God made the worldin 6 days and

rested on the 7th

God started theUniverse through the

Big Bang

The Universe startedwith a massive

explosion and we arehere by chance

The Bible comesfrom God and is

literally true

The idea of the BigBang is wrong as it

contradicts the Bible

God set up the lawsof nature that govern

our world and itscreation

God acted in theWorld to trigger

The Big Bang; He wasthe first cause

14 billion years agothe right conditions

prevailed forthe Universe to start

Nothing was neededto start this off;

it just happened!

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?

What are the pros and cons of the

Cosmological Argument?

Pros

ConsThe Universe just is; it

doesn’t need to have been caused

Just because everything we see has a cause, doesn’t mean there has to be an overall reason or plan to the world

There wasn’t necessarily a first cause; the Universe could be eternal

It’s a contradiction to say all things are caused apart from God

The argument is based on experience of the world; all we see does have a cause

Something must have started everything else off; it’s logical

God is the only eternal and unchanging being so must be the first of all causes

It is flexible; it fits with both the Bible

and modern science