Question

Explain and defend your personal view of the purpose and first cause of the universe. Is your determination of the first cause of the universe important when making other decisions to direct your life or in your political views? Analyze your decision making and ethical beliefs to see how your “first principles” might guide your worldview and decision making. ( Answer should be at 200 words)

Answer 1

The first cause argument (or “cosmological argument”) propose that the existence of the universe points towards the existence of a being that created it. It shows that the universe had a beginning and that it did not emerge out of infinity. Thus ultimately, the fact that the universe has an origin indicates that some event or other being such as God caused the universe as it exists today. This creator is deemed as the first cause of the universe.

As I reflect on my own view on the first cause of life, I am made to see that my belief in the theory of a Creator has led me to understand and explain regularities in my world based on this cosmological viewpoint. I am a fir, believer in the principle of ‘karma’ or the worldview that people get an outcome which is proportional to their own thoughts and actions. Such a belief in the karmic balance of good and wrongdoings draws from the idea that for something to come into existence there must be something else that already exists for the former force to take shape in our existence. The fact that the universe began to exist therefore implies that something brought it into existence, that the universe has a Creator.

Moreover, I can sense a reflection of this belief in the theory of the creation of the Universe in my way of interpreting and responding to social, environmental and political phenomena of the present time. For instance, The increasing threat of war, The ecological impact of Climate change across the world, all are in a way explained on the basis of the adverse consequences of harming each other which has culminated into receiving the ‘wrath’ of the Creator in terms of the denudation of these social and environmental ethics. One can see how such a theorisation about the origin and happenings in the world has implications not only for our analyses and interpretations of the different aspects of th3 world but how these also limit or expand the framework of our involvement in changing, conforming to or restoring the process of social and political occurances especially those which may have ethical significance for our civilisations.