One early effort was the cosmological argument, conventionally attributed to Thomas Aquinas.

In Locke's opinion the cosmological argument was valid and proved God's existence.

It is therefore another form of the cosmological argument.

Two kinds of Islamic perspectives may be considered with regard to the cosmological argument.

Various primary arguments from cosmology and the nature of causation are often offered to support the cosmological argument.

He has published in defense of theistic arguments, and is even considered a supporter of the cosmological argument.

So goes the cosmological argument , one of the three traditional arguments toward a Supreme Being.

Many other philosophers have posited cosmological arguments both before and since Aquinas.

A version of the cosmological argument could be stated as follows:

He formulated the cosmological argument succinctly: "Why is there something rather than nothing?