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COSMOS THE BODY OF GOD: ISA PURUSHA TATVA<br />

M.M.NINAN<br />

answer would just presuppose additional contingent beings. An adequate explanation <strong>of</strong> why some<br />

contingent beings exist would invoke a different sort <strong>of</strong> being, a necessary being that is not contingent.<br />

A response might suppose each individual is contingent but the infinite chain as a whole is not; or the<br />

whole infinite causal chain to be its own cause.<br />

The Infinite Universe Theory claims that the physical world is governed by an infinite universal<br />

causality. Severinsen argues that there is an "infinite" and complex causal structure. White tried to<br />

introduce an argument “without appeal to the principle <strong>of</strong> sufficient reason and without denying the<br />

possibility <strong>of</strong> an infinite causal regress”.<br />

Saint Thomas Aquinas’ argument from contingency applies even if the universe had no beginning, but<br />

it would still have to be sustained in being at any particular moment by <strong>God</strong>. According to Aquinas,<br />

the universe cannot, at any particular moment, be causing itself. Even if causes and effects in the<br />

universe looped back on themselves, they would still, at any particular moment, be contingent and thus<br />

would have to be caused by <strong>God</strong>. They could not be causing themselves.<br />

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