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1: there exists argument against X 2: lots of humans don't believe X Maybe there is a third kind of "discredited."

• foldr 10y ago
  To say that an argument is discredited usually implies that there's a clear balance of expert opinion against it. That's not really the case with the cosmological argument, or with the (similar but not identical) argument given by Aristotle for an unmoved mover.
  • eclat 10y ago
    I'd wager there is a clear consensus amongst philosophers against the cosmological argument, considering 73% of them are atheists. http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=13371 http://commonsenseatheism.com/?p=13371
    • foldr 10y ago
      1) You can be an atheist and still think that the cosmological argument is a good argument. In other words, you can think that the premises are plausibly true, and that the conclusion is significantly more likely to be true given the truth of the premises than it is otherwise. Being an atheist only prevents you from thinking that the cosmological argument is strong enough to outweigh all arguments against the existence of God. 2) Few philosophers are experts in the cosmological argument anyway, so it doesn't matter what most philosophers think of it.