Cosmological constant

individual person were intelligently designed and made with a purpose to fulfill. Theologians base this idea off of one true creator and defend him using three complex and well thought of arguments. The first of three major arguments For God are the Cosmological Arguments. These ideas pertain to how the universe and things in the universe function. The first is that everything in the universe is put into motion by something else. Nothing just randomly gets up and moves, something…

God that can exist in only some circumstances, but fails to exist in others is a less than perfect being. The Catholic thinker and philosopher, St Thomas Aquinas (1224-1274), summarised his cosmological argument which speaks of five ways in which people can determine the existence of God. His cosmological argument declares that things in existence are set in motion and are constantly changing. Aquinas says that, “Whatever is set in motion must be put in motion by another.” He also mentions…

The Ontological argument, written by philosopher St. Anselm of Canterbury in his book the Proslogion in the eleventh century, is a metaphysical argument for the existence of God in reality. In this essay I will discuss the validity of this argument. In this text Anselm states that the concept of God has the necessary and sufficient condition of being maximally perfect- ‘that than which a greater cannot be thought’- and that, since existing in reality is greater than existing only conceptually,…

ontological proof, according to McCloskey, does not hold any value and therefore has nothing to do with why theists believe in the first place (). There is no discussion around this theory. There is, however, an obvious interest in trivializing the cosmological proof of God’s existence. This is the…

Response to McCloskey’s Article Shamyra Thompson Liberty University Introduction In the short article On Being an Atheist, H.J. McCloskey discusses several arguments pertaining to the whether or no there is a God and what one believes to be evil. McCloskey also refers to the arguments as “proof” as well as implied several times that they can’t define or establish the existence of God. In the light of Foreman’s comments in regards to the question of…

These three philosophers Anselm, Guanilo and Thomas Aquinas present their arguments about the existence of God that not everyone would agree with their view of how God exists. One philosopher Thomas Aquinas gives the better evidence in opinion because he argues that everything that has breath must have a creator. Aquinas opinion is the only thing that makes sense of what these three philosophers say about the existence of God. God does exist not for what these three philosophers say, but God…

more sense and facts compared to Christian beliefs. The large part of his work focused on arguing against the three major proofs that exist among most individuals in the universe today. Through his argument against theistic proofs that include cosmological argument, the argument from design and the teleological argument, McCloskey stated that it is irrational for any human being to live by faith. He goes on to deduce that the three agreements cannot prove or cannot be the basis to show that God…

In response to Aquinas, Paul Edwards argues against the Principle of Sufficient Reason and Aquinas’ assertion that an infinite regress is impossible. Regarding Aquinas’ use of the reduction and absurdum in his Third Way, Edwards argues Aquinas does not succeed in proving an infinite regress is impossible. Edwards asserts one can acknowledge God’s existence, and thus the existence of all which follows from God’s existence, without acknowledging God as “the first member of the series.” According…

When it comes to the existence of God, there are many arguments. Some say that God does not exist while others try to explain how the universe was created. Saint Thomas Aquinas gives a cosmological view on whether God exists. In his article, Whether God Exists, he provides five arguments to support his view. The first article talks about motion. Just like the Myth of the Cave the prisoners used their senses to survive on a daily basis. Your senses prove that things are in motion. This shows…

St. Thomas Aquinas, a philosopher and theologian, offers a cosmological argument defending the existence of God that can be understood first on the basis of dependent and independent beings. A dependent being is one that has a contingent existence. In other words, it could have failed to exist because its existence is brought about by another being. The reason for a dependent being’s existence resides in something else. An independent being, however, has a necessary existence that could not fail…