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    everywhere in everything . Then he asks about God’s existence in things, I.8.1-4. He is trying to answer the questions: Is God in all things, Is God everywhere, Is God everywhere by essence, power, and presence, and Does it belong to God alone to be everywhere? These questions and their answers are a significant component of Aquinas’s understanding of the natural world. Aquinas is building of his understanding that God is self-subsistent existence and supplying being to all of His created…

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    There has been one philosophical question that has plagued religious thinkers for all of human history. Is there a God? Philosophers have argued for centuries about the existence of God and have yet to provide a convincing conclusion. By no means will I attempt to answer this question, but rather explore the complexities of their arguments. I have chosen to analyze the arguments of Thomas Aquinas, Blaise Pascal and Robert Adams respectively. I attempt to discover what these arguments were aiming…

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    René Descartes built the argument for God’s existence more than once in his “Discourse on Method and Meditations of First Philosophy”, and it wasn’t easy. The basis for his first ultimate proof of God’s existence is developed in Meditation One and Two, in which he establishes how one can know things, and builds certainty of his own existence from the ground up. Meditation Three includes his first attempt at defining God’s existence with a logical proof, in which Descartes takes the power of…

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    Dawkins: Writing In recent discussion of Dawkins’ “Arguments about God’s existence”, a controversial issue has been whether he offers a strong and valid argument about religion. Some argue that his paper is filled with false assertions about religion and the existence of God. From this perspective, Dawkins is proving that God doesn’t exist on false claims such as heredity and Agnostic beliefs. On the other hand, however, others argue that his arguments stem from logic and reason. That one needs…

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    The problem of evil can be defined as the problem of reconciling the presence of evil with the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent and a perfectly good God (Holt, 2008). This theory surrounds the God of classical theism in which Epicurus formulated. The theory states that God is known as an all-knowing, all powerful and all loving being and therefore, how can suffering be existent in a world where God is all- powerful. Augustine made a comment saying “Either God cannot abolish evil, or he…

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    With that said I do not want to go over Descartes “Trademark” and “Ontotological” arguments, which argue for the existence of God, but rather his discussion of clarity and distinctness. (Descartes 168-170) Descartes says “A certain opinion of long standing has been fixed in my mind …. That there exists a God.” (Descartes 168) His belief in God gives him the idea that…

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    a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of magic. In a narrower sense, realism is specifically the position that there is no magic. Most inclusively, realism is the absence of belief that any magic exist, a belief in reality, the real world, an interpretation or representation of things as they actually are (distinguished from atheism).2 Atheism – athe·ist (ā-thē-ist) n. is in a broad sense, the rejection of belief in the existence of deities. In a narrower sense, atheism is…

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    nose up at primitive points of view, establishing their own views as the only opinion that can be correct, while the primitive fights to just be heard. Vine Deloria Jr. examines the differing views throughout his book, “The Metaphysics of Modern Existence”, and establishes that the primitive view is not to be discounted in our current day and age. It is through acceptance of both primitive and scientific that we will be able to fully understand our world and our place in this metaphysical…

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    uses this methodology while being primarily concerned with proving the existence of God. This certainly is important for Descartes because if God exists, then we are able to trust our senses because God wouldn’t deceive us by distorting our perceptions. Additionally if things are as Descartes perceives them, then he must exist because he is the one perceiving the world. Descartes presents several arguments for God’s existence, including one which incorporates the great chain of being and both…

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    universe come into being? It seems to me you have to postulate some sort of a transcendent, immaterial, non-physical reality to bring the universe into existence”. Actually, this is not merely a claim; Craig would like this statement to function as an argument for a particular worldview. Specifically, Craig uses this argument as a proof for the existence of God. Ignoring Craig’s second sentence, I have crudely taken his argument arranged it in the form of a syllogism to better analyze the…

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