Cosmological argument

In William Wordsworth’s “London, 1802,” the poet John Milton metonymically symbolizes the artistic excellence and revolutionary vigor the speaker believes England has lost. However, the speaker also appeals to Milton for moral guidance, correlating England’s political and cultural stagnation to a forgotten moral foundation. While the speaker employs parallelism and a wide variety of poetic devices to demonstrate this causality, his conspicuous and incessant use of the colon and semicolon…

In “Space”, Thomas A. Tweed characterizes sacred space as differentiated, interrelated, and kinetic. All of these characteristics can be used to justify Jerusalem as a sacred space. The “Holy Land” does not have the qualities of a “great city”. It is not on route to any important place, it does not have a trading market, nor is it on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea. However, it does have a small source of water, the Gihon Spring, which is reason enough to settle anywhere. Additionally, it…

In Proslogium, St. Anselm presents the basis of the ontological argument for the existence of God. His argument is driven by two main ideas – the first being that it is possible to conceive of a being that is God, and the second being that existence is a great-making quality. In this essay, I will contend that this argument fails because existence cannot be conceived to be a great-making quality. Anselm defines a great-making quality to be one that when added to something, allows that entity to…

One of his main arguments about society is that true knowledge is impossible for anyone to achieve. He argues: “the clear and certain truth no man has seen, nor will there be anyone who knows about the Gods” (Text 24). According to his reasoning, humans can only have abstract beliefs about the way the world is because there is no independent way to establish truth. This idea immediately conflicts with his other arguments because if humans are unable to know absolute…

In “The Argument from Design,” William Paley argues in favor of the existence of God by drawing comparisons between a watch and the universe. David Hume debates the existence of God using three characters in “Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.” This essay examines “The Argument from Design” by William Paley on the existence of God. This essay defends Paley’s argument that the universe was intricately designed against Hume’s dissimilarity and imperfection objections. David Hume wrote his…

solely saying “God exists” does not imply he actually exists, there has to be further analysis in order to make an atheist question whether or not God exists. Aquinas does not rely exclusively on self-evident propositions for his argument for God’s existence, his argument for God’s existence answers the proposition and guides us through the five ways in which prove that God does in fact…

Stars were not created until the fourth day, advancing his argument along several lines. 14 Likewise, other Answers in Genesis contributors insist upon the Sun’s actual creation on the fourth day,15 as do the…

In the Ontological argument, you're starting with the simple concept of God. Does God exist? St. Anselm's theory tries to come to a conclusion about this question. St. Anselm goes on to make two major points in his argument. One being that there is a difference between existence in reality and existence in understanding. Existence in reality is a basic notion, that things that physically exist do, and things that don’t, don’t. Existence in understanding means that anything can exist if we want…

Cause and Effect – Peer Review In an interview with Petr Munzy, a Law Professor of Law and Logic on human thinking, he speaks of one basic principle that permeates the whole universe. It is the principle of Cause and Effect. He states in his interview that every effect around us must have a cause. For example, you walk in a Forrest, and right there in the middle of the Forrest you see a bench. The bench is the effect, what is the cause? Is it accidental or deliberate? Somebody must have…

Saint Thomas Aquinas was one such philosopher, and created 5 intriguing arguments for the existence of God. Each argument is compelling and interesting; however, it is only the first four that are known as the cosmological arguments. Although the fifth argument, the teleological argument, is worth reading, we will be giving the four cosmological arguments our attention. In this essay, not only will we will discuss the arguments from motion,…