DAVID BECK The term “cosmological argument” (hereafter CA) refers to a whole cluster of arguments or patterns of thinking, all of which draw the common conclusion that God is real based on observations that things we see around us cannot exist unless something or someone else makes them exist. Diamonds, dandelions, dromedaries, and davebecks: none of them can exist apart from a whole range of surrounding factors and causes. This argument says that we must think of God