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The arguments presented from William Rowe in The Cosmological Argument conclude that although the Cosmological Argument might be a sound argument, it does not provide good rational grounds for believing that among those beings that exist there is one whose existence is accounted for by its own nature. Rowe reasons that it does not attempt to prove anything about the first cause or about God, except to argue that such a cause must exist. Defenders of the argument reply that the Principles of Sufficient Reason are necessary to make the universe intelligible. Without such presuppositions, science itself would be undercut.
The strengths of the Cosmological Argument are its simplicity and easily comprehensible concept that there cannot be infinite causes to an event. It is perfectly logical to assert that objects do not bring themselves into existence and must, therefore, have causes. But if all things need a cause to exist, then God Himself must also, by definition, need a cause to......

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