Arguments for the existence of God

Evolutionist, and Atheist have debated over how human beings came into existence. Many Evolutionist, believe that the human race was created by the big bang and we evolved over the years. The question that I have for many evolutionist, is Who is the true Big Banger? Many Evolutionist claim that there is enough evidence to prove that there isn 't a creator. The evolutionist has the script flipped. There is enough evidence to prove that there is a God. There is a common fact that the necessary…

On the third meditation, Descartes attempts to prove the existence of God. In order to do this, it is important to believe that God doesn’t rely on anything else for his own existence; he simply has been and always has been and always will be. He is the first cause, same idea that leads to the well-known cosmological argument that is introduced throughout this meditation. For this, Descartes begs us to consider three things: 1) formal reality, 2) objective reality, and 3) the causal principle.…

This essay will aim to discuss René Descartes arguments on the first philosophy, by looking at his Meditations on First Philosophy, published in 1641. A summary of Descartes’ arguments will be given by focussing on the first, second, fourth and sixth meditations. Thereafter I will state whether or not I found Descartes’ argument convincing or not. In the first meditation, Descartes states what one might doubt. He starts his argument with that of dreams, and the objection thereof. Descartes…

Throughout the article, “God,” Simon Blackburn gives different insights that may seem logical to a person limited to a self-seeking mindset. Therefore, I will be making the argument that Blackburn is incorrect when claiming that, due to the existence of evil, there must not be an all-powerful God whom doesn’t care. Through his piece “God” Blackburn addresses various different cases through famous philosophers and theologians, namely Anselm, St. Thomas Aquinas, and Cleathnes. He firmly disagrees…

idea that since there are vast amounts of evil in the world, God cannot exist. Critics argue that this is the case because if He did exist, we would not find evils in our world. This objection is formulated into the Argument from Evil, which proceeds as follows: P1: If God exists, then He is omnipotent and morally perfect. P2: If God is omnipotent, then He would be able to prevent all of the evil and suffering in the world. P3: If God is morally perfect, then he would want to prevent all of the…

popular counter argument to this certainty is what if some omnipotent being, such as God, is deceiving one about one’s existence? Well the answer to that is fairly simple, if God is deceiving him, then he must exist in order to be deceived. God can deceive one about anything else, but he will never be able to deceive one about their existence. Another popular argument is since one can say “I think therefore I am”, can one then say “I walk therefore I am” as a way to prove their existence? The…

The final skeptical argument that Descartes offers is the argument from God’s omnipotent power (Class notes, Week 1). This argument is different from the first two arguments because it is calling into question God’s omnipotent power to deceive us into believing what is true is actually false. Descartes arrives to this argument because after the dream argument he admits that though he maybe dreaming, there are things in that world that remain consistent whether the senses were fooled or not.…

The two proofs I am going to compare are Augustine’s argument for God’s existence and Aquinas’ 5 Ways argument for God’s existence. I don’t think either of them prove that God exists, but I think Aquinas’ argument is more effective than Augustine’s. Aquinas covers many different reasons why God exits but not all of them are as good as each other. The arguments about there had to be something that started the movement of the universe and everything in it has a good point that there almost had to…

What makes the good pure and evil bad? You are just about to find that out. We shall find the basis supporting this argument on the researches of three scholars who conducted an in-depth analysis on the subject. Each of these authors has their different contributions which must be not be ignored, to understand the existence of man in the universe, and things that control him. We shall look at the works of three researchers, who are Bertrand Russell, in his contributions on why I am Not a…

Rene Descartes work ‘Meditations on First Philosophy’ is filled with his many ideas on God, the relationship between the mind and body and the trustworthiness of things we believe to be true. The main focus of this essay is his arguments for distrusting the senses. These are the dreaming argument and the evil demon argument. Meditations begins with Descartes casting doubt on everything he once believed to be absolutely true. It is a search for absolute certainty. In order to do this he uses…