Natural theology

H. J. McCloskey wrote the article “ On Being an Atheist”. This very interesting article gave his personal opinion on why he did not believe in God. In his article he gives his opinions of the cosmological, and teleological arguments. The main argument he makes in his article is about the evil and hardship in the world which is suppose to be created by a caring and loving God. Though H.j Mcloskey wanted to have proof and contrary to his opinions of the cosmological and theological arguments…

INTRODUCTION Language is the celestial souvenir of divinity only to the mankind. A language lends a hand to an individual in the progress of his or her own personality that distinguishes a man from an animal. In fact it is the language which transports the people of different cultures, traditions and communities nearer. Language is a means of exchange a few words, thoughts and feelings to other. The purpose of language teaching is to facilitate language learning. Teacher has to understand the…

If the ‘Parable of the Vineyard’ is admitted to be a justification, then this statement is all the more valid for the parable narrated by Pearl. The words articulated directly before the biblical story denote exactly what the purpose of the teaching will be. Pearl claims that “Þer is no date of Hys [God’s] godnesse […] For al is trawþe þat He con dresse, and He may do noþynk bot ryȝt” (Pearl 493-496). The subject of the conversation which precedes this declaration also indicates that the aim of…

A famous religious figure, Joel Osteen, once said “ The moment you ask for forgiveness, God forgave you. Now do your part and leave the guilt behind ”. This quote is largely related to the religious theme of the book Angela’s Ashes written by Frank McCourt. The book displayed an autobiography of Frank’s life through his eyes from the time before his birth till he reached adulthood. Throughout his life, his family and he had faced many problems such as starvation. Frank sought religion as a way…

In everyone's pockets in the country there is the sign of the Illuminati, whether you’ve known it or not. Some people believe that the symbol of the Illuminati is an All Seeing Eye that sits atop a pyramid, which is on the one dollar bill! The Illuminati is an organization that has sparked controversy over the years. There are many different people saying several different things about the Illuminati, many people say that it isn’t real and it never was, some say that it was a religion, and some…

Over a millennium after Aristotle wrote his unmoved mover argument. The Catholic philosopher Saint Thomas Aquinas reintroduced the idea as part of his five proofs for the existence of God. Aquinas’s first way is derived from motion. Following the same premise as Aristotle, Aquinas argues that a first mover, existing in a state of perfect actuality, must exist to move things from potential to actual states. Absence of this first mover would result in an infinite regress; therefore, the…

To some degree, human beings want certainty both in their understanding of the universe and in humanity’s ability to acquire knowledge on said universe. Many early ontological theories tried to demonstrate that the model proposed is absolutely certain by the provided logic and has no faults on which the system can be refuted. For example, in Anaximenes’ theory that all is air or Plato’s theory of the world of ideal forms, each philosopher proposed their system in the hope that they created a…

that time, who thought that Hume’s “No-Ought-From-Is” and G.E. Moore’s Naturalistic Fallacy are similar. Although the philosophers of that time mistaken that these two works are the same. Naturalistic fallacy is the reduction of moral properties to natural ones: goodness. On the other hand, Hume’s law is that there is no logically valid inference from descriptive statements to normative statements. First, usually morality has a way of reasoning, and it establishes the being of a God. Hume’s…

When one examines religion, one often finds a glaring contradiction between the existence an all knowing, all powerful, all loving God, and evil. This is known as the problem of evil, and it has perplexed theists and atheists for centuries. One 20th century philosopher, J.L Mackie, used a formulation of the problem of evil in an attempt to disprove the existence of God. Over the course of his career, he sought to prove that God could not exist alongside evil. While Mackie’s argument is valid,…

He is regarded as one of the best Christian Philosophers that has ever lived. He created 5 ways in which try to prove the existence of God; his fifth way is a Design Argument. Aquinas said that; All natural bodies, for example a tree etc. all manage/ are able to reach their end goal/ purpose. This is known as their ‘todos’. He argued that whatever couldn’t think for themselves, (in this case \a tree) must have an intelligent designer, or being controlling…