"If everything that exists in the world (including the world itself) is not the cause of its own existence, then there must be a cause of the world's existence which itself does not need to be caused by anything else that uncaused cause is God." This line of argument is called:

A. the ontological argument.
B. the cosmological argument.
C. the existential argument.
D. the teleological argument.


Answer: B

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