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    for the nearness of God. McCloskey battled against the three magical confirmations, cosmological conflict, philosophical dispute, and the dispute from diagram. The Cumulative case that he shows takes the Cosmological, Theological, and Moral Arguments and amasses them. The Cosmological case makes a claim for the nearness for God, the Theological case is the shrewd case, and the Moral case is morally incredible. All together, these present the Cumulative guard, which is a dispute of an…

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    The existence of God has been a talked subject for more than 100 decades. Throughout this time we’ve managed to take a step forward into finalizing the question once and for all. We have the cosmological view and teleological view that help us understand if we do believe on God or if we don’t. There are two types of people in this world. One that doesn’t need proof to understand that there is a God. and the other that need logic to understand if there is a God. I don’t consider myself an atheist…

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    For decades now, the topic of God’s presence has been bantered consistently.There are numerous arguments that seek to explain life apart from God’s involvement. Such as, cosmological and teleological arguments. “In light of these, H.J McCloskey composed an article entitled "On Being an Atheist" in which he says these contentions are false and contends that without complete evidences, we should expel the possibility of God totally and his primary complaint to the possibility of God is the…

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    The Cosmological Argument

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    number of arguments for and against the existence of God emerged at this time, and while the philosophical debate 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.…

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    others refute this claim. The debates on the existence of God is based on the teleological and cosmological arguments. In his article, McCloskey refutes the claims made by these two arguments and holds that they are false. The author states that humans should dismiss the idea of God since there is evil in the world. McCloskey argues that since there is evil in the world, it can be concluded that God does not exist. The arguments made by the philosopher are related to the beliefs and values of…

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    Why Do Proof God Exist

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    63). This argument is an example of things that have no complete proof or reason to be. Thus, best if accepted because of the things that are seen, historical experiences, or on obvious things that have reason to exist, but not because of what is believed by assumptions…

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    One can reject the argument from design by rejecting its premise, that there is evidence of design and purpose” (p.64). He believes there is no possible way to verify God exist or that he is the creator of the universe. Plus, he irradiates that because God’s realism lacks factual proof or evidence of “genuine indisputable examples of design or purpose are needed” then God is non-existence (McCloskey, n.d., p.64). McCloskey’s tangible argument appears to be about evolution and his…

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    God’s existence has been a key topic of debate over the past couple of centuries. People argue either way very strongly, and many are not open to hearing the other side. When this topic is argued, there are two main arguments, the cosmological and teleological argument. In this article, “On Being an Atheist”, H.J. McCloskey argues against each of these views. He believes that without sure “proof” of God, we need to totally pitch the idea that God exists. If this were the case, many…

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    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…

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    If a teacher does not wish to be reprimanded, his or her students will all have to do well on the tests. In order to be sure that this happens, teachers will teach to the tests. They will focus not on creative writing, but rather on the type of writing that the test scorers will want to see. Instead of taking field trips, students will be practicing analogies and test taking skills. Literature will not be read intensively, but will instead be skimmed for the main points in order to answer…

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