Cosmological Argument poem

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Both once were a seed,

And once pollen, too.

This may be their cause,

But what of the pollen?

And what of the parents

Who grew before them?

Aquinas viewed causes

And got the impression,

That they can’t go on forever,

Causing infinite regression.

Aquinas’ three ways, of

Motion, cause, contingency,

Meant one Unmoved Mover

Must help all else be.

First, all things existing change,

Which we know a posteriori.

Second, nothing causes itself,

Can be learned empirically.

Third, all things rely on others,

Existing contingently.

The cause must be an eternal

Being, existing necessarily.

Coppleston shared a similar view,

Because nothing is its own cause.

A sufficient reason is God,

In universal laws.

Russell argued it’s pointless to

Discuss causes of our universe.

We’ll never know the answer

With so much space to traverse.

Kant also said we are limited

In knowledge to time and space.

Speculating on what’s external to this,

Is pondering a hopeless case.

Hume thought that just because

All in the universe has a cause,

Doesn’t mean that as a whole,

The universe follows this clause.