Arguments for the existence of God

gives three arguments to try and make himself believe that all his thoughts, beliefs and previous knowledge is nonexistent or has no value. He is trying to convince himself that he knows nothing. I think this is a rather difficult task to perform considering that no matter what you try to do to convince yourself of something you will always go back to your old thoughts and beliefs. It is just how our minds work. The first main argument I am going to talk about is the Dreaming Argument…

TOPIC: Existence of God Thesis: Humans have long struggled with the questions of life; why are we here, and how did we come into being. In the search for answers to these matters, societies have attempted to provide solutions, in the form of supreme beings. However, it will be argued, that God, as defined as a single entity that created all life, does not exist because the universe developed from the Big Bang, human life evolved over millennia, and previously unexplainable mysteries were…

Now, we shift our attention to the core of this paper: The Design Argument. This argument focuses on the fact the our universe is fit for human habilitation and observation; it explores the fact that something must have planned an intricate design for our universe. it simply states that no matter how random we thing of the attribute the immediate cause of the universe - the big band thintoery to be, nothing in the universe came about by chance - there appears to be a reason or pupose for all of…

in the teleological and the cosmological argument. In addition, he believes no perfect being would create a world with suffering and evil. To this I would say in order to distinguish that something is good you have to know something is bad. This comes along with feelings and emotions that brings us to the thought of how our feelings are created. We don’t create them ourselves; it’s something that triggers them. That something is the spirit of the living God who allows us to feel love, hate,…

world and in Western philosophy. Today marks the day St Thomas Aquinas declared their theory for Gods existence, which has since been named the Cosmological Theory. This theory comes from the idea of Cosmos, hence the name the Cosmological Theory. Cosmos refers to the collection of everything that exists. (Anon., 2004) Everyone believes that God is the sole creator of the universe…

implies that there is a creator for life who is God. However, the naturalists such as Miller and Haldane shows that chemicals can react each other and form amino acid and other required compounds for living organism on early earth through experiments. Later, study shows that there are several flaws in Miller’s experiment thus fails to show the natural procedure for chemicals to form living organisms. Hence, The naturalist…

his strong moral argument. He is a key thinker for Christians as he has helped Christians to give a persuasive argument for a personal Creator. C.S. Lewis’s…

Descartes has written six meditations on First Philosophy, with some being more important than the other. The third meditation does seem to stand out among the rest as the most important. The goal of this meditation is to find out if there is a God and whether or not God is a deceiver. After reading the third meditation, you take a step back to realize the importance of what the meditation had uncovered. There are different types of Ideas, which might not seem so important to the whole…

write a model reflection on God in which everything would be proved by reason and nothing on the authority of Scripture. He replied with his “Monologion”. It contains three proofs of the existence of God, all of which are based on Neoplatonic thought. The first proof moves from the awareness of a multiplicity of good things to the acknowledgment that they all share or participate more or less in one and the same Good, which is supremely good in itself, and that is God. The second and third…

science is evidence based”, Dawkins suggested that religion teaches us to be satisfied with not really understanding. For instance, when one religious person faces with some difficult problem, he/she will just justify it by using the quote of “Oh, God did it!” On the other hand, Lennox suggested that blind faith can be very dangerous especially when it’s coupled with blind obedience to an evil authority but not all faith is blind faith. Faith might be carrying things that Science cant’s…