The most popular current form of this line of reasoning is based on Arab thought as developed by William Craig and is known as the "Kalam" argument.  
The most popular current form of this line of reasoning is based on Arab thought as developed by William Craig and is known as the "Kalam" argument.  An early form was developed by Plato in his discussion in the Laws of soul/body disjunction.  Essentially, the argument assumes the impossibility of an infinite regression of events.  Sometimes known in its Liebnizian form, but usually associated with Thomas Aquinas, FTP, name this argument for the existence of God as the original cause or "first mover" of the universe.
The most popular current form of this line of reasoning is based on Arab thought as developed by William Craig and is known as the "Kalam" argument.  
Cosmological Argument  [accept "first cause" or "first mover" before they are mentioned, do not accept "teleological" or "argument from design"-they were excluded from the first paragraph on]