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be falsified. He says that “one ought to bring oneself to believe in God because it is rational to wager or bet ‘that God is’”. The wager Pascal discusses encompasses the idea of finite and infinite gains and losses. According to Pascal, if you gain, you gain all and if you lose, you lose nothing. This concluding that one must wager to believe or not. I will offer an explanation of why he believes it is rational to wager that God exists. I will then argue that although rational, Pascal fails to…

in Proving the Existence of God? For centuries, the existence of God has been questioned and argued by many different philosophers. One of the “big three” arguments is the Ontological Argument, an argument that could be said to be valid, as it has a good structure, but the soundness is questionable. The argument was founded by St Anselm (1033-1109) on the basis of two things: firstly, that God is “that than which nothing greater can be conceived” , which means that God is the most superior…

instead of thank God. When I read the title of the article i thought why not just say thank God instead of thank Goodness ? Daniel Dennett did not believe in God. he said in the article “We atheists don't believe there is any God to thank”.Me being a Strong God believer that statement is impossible for me to believe.Dennett beliefs in a God is fully irrelevant to their work for humanity, when a person get through something that they think they can't survive they always thank God. Dennett…

that you should believe in God because if you live a virtuous life and God is real you will have an infinite life in heaven. But if you believe in God and he is not real the only thing you will lose is the pleasures of sin. He believes sin is innate in us as we are born into sin and that is what we ultimately would rather do than live virtuously. On the other if you don’t believe and he is real you will have an infinite life but just in hell. Also, if you don’t believe in God and he isn’t real…

Most arguments that God doesn't exist are since God is disproven by scientific findings. After watching the video, it becomes apparent that while science doesn't directly prove that God exists, it leaves holes that can only be explained by God. Father Baron, points out that the odds that the world we know was created are next to none without God; he says that it is just as likely that somebody will win a mega-million-dollar lottery 1000 times in a row while purchasing only one ticket for each.…

In the Third Meditation, Descartes provides an argument for the existence of God that has been a great source of discussion and debate since. With the Meditations, Descartes attempted to deconstruct and destroy all of his beliefs and all foundations of knowledge in order to accomplish two aims: to provide a sound basis for scientific method and to prove the compatibility between science and religion. With the Meditations, Descartes was determined to figure out what he knew with certainty and did…

Arnold, J. Philip. “The Davidian Dilemma-To Obey God or Man?” From the Ashes: Making Sense of Waco. Ed. James R. Lewis. Lanham, MD: Rowman &Little, 1994. 23-31. Print Philip Arnold tells the story of the Waco, Texas incident through his eyes. Arnold begins the article by discussing the role of religious faith in this situation. The government’s inability to relate and understand Koresh’s strong religious beliefs serves as the foundation for the tragedy that occurred in Waco, Texas. Arnold…

Craig Reiner Lesson 3 Level 1 One difficult idea for philosopher to prove is whether or not God exists. The philosopher St. Anselm of Canterbury took on this feat in the 11th century in his work entitled Proslogion. In the beginning Anselm tries to use the idea of the limitations of human thought to prove that God exists. The basic idea behind Anselm argument for the existence of God is that there is “Something-than-which-nothing-greater-can-be-thought (Anselm 266)”. He believes that there…

One either believes that there is a God that exists, or there is not. While there are numerous opinions on God’s existence, Blaise Pascal, author of “The Wager”, believes that there is a God. However, according to Pascal, a French philosopher, we cannot fully comprehend God. “The Wager”, which includes a psychological argument, consists of individuals who are willing to risk their own lives and bet on the existence of God. Essentially, the argument of this work is between philosophy and…

pretexts were paramount to the progression of society, Hobbes’s Leviathan portrayed men as creatures whose main concern was the pursuit of self preservation . Though almost half of Leviathan is dedicated to the theological explanation of God, some may argue Gods irrelevance for most of the naturalistic arguments that are put fourth. This essay will expand on Hobbes 's interpretation of a mortal type of higher power based on reason rather than a conception of a theological being. I will argue,…