Cosmological constant

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…

COSMOLOGICAL ARGUMENT: MAKING THE BELIEF IN GOD RATIONAL TOPIC: Of the arguments for the existence of God (the cosmological [first cause] argument and the teleological [design] argument found in Hume, and the ontological argument of Anselm), which is the best in your view? What is the structure of the argument? What is a potential objection to the argument? Is there an adequate response to that objection? Is the argument sufficient to make belief in God rational? Why or why not? When…

on the existence of God is still in session, the initial dust has settled. At this point in time, it is abundantly clear that a the cosmological argument is untenable at both a metaphysical and empirical level, and that the various versions of the cosmological argument fail to support the existence of God. There is good reason for critically examining the cosmological argument. Theists have made a claim that God exists. Fideists maintain their beliefs by not needing…

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…

In the article presented On Being an Atheist, H.J. McCloskey uses three of the more popular proofs that theists have argued for God’s existence, in an attempt to disprove that there is a God. First he discusses the cosmological argument. The cosmological argument makes an effort to conclude the existence of God from the existence of the cosmos or universe. The arguments are called first-cause arguments. The first-cause points to God being responsible for the “cause” of everything. Something…

The works of Hesiod and Homer served as some of the earliest theories of cosmology and cosmogony. After Xenophanes of Colophon understood their interpretation of the kosmos, he rejects many of their ideas and asserts his claim that God is anthropomorphic and does not interfere with human life. In this paper, I will examine the differences between the views of Hesiod and Homer and those of Xenophanes. To begin, both Hesiod and Homer establish a cosmology and cosmogony centered around the idea…

The argument for the existence of God I find those most interesting is the Cosmological argument. The Cosmological argument starts with the idea that everything in nature has an explanatory or sensible sequence. For these sequences to exist and be so efficient it must be concluded that something must have caused them and put them into place, a thing that was not just another part of nature or sequence. To fully sum up and conclude this argument it must be put together that a powerful force or…

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…

infinite is the infinite itself, which means God is real because he is the infinite. Descartes uses this argument in order to resolve what he had questioned in the beginning of the meditation; he had questioned whether or not there was a god. The cosmological argument accomplishes finding the answer to Descartes question by proving through the meditation that God is real. Another certainty that Descartes was trying to reach with the third meditation is that God is not a deceiver. The idea of God…