argument clearly has its weaknesses and primarily this is that the argument is successful in proving that if God exists then he must exist‚ although for the atheist‚ this may not be enough. Interstingly‚ even among the faithful there are theories that suggest the idea to know of God’s essence at all is impossible‚ as the great theologian Aquinas remarked: “we do not know the essence of God”11 Clearly‚ there can be little doubt that the Ontological Argument has stimulated huge amounts of debate and
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people were acting towards the existences of God. These chapters teach on the natural world. In addition‚ it teaches on the human identity and human relationship‚ which focuses on how humans should socialize. Apart from these‚ it also teaches on the culture. The natural world God created the world; the creation of the world developed from God’s word. The word is the teachings from the bible thus the Bible teaches the aspects of life that have to follow by the Christians. God created the natural world
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References: 1. Scientist who believe in God‚ http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/sciencefaith.html#.UENao5a8irg 2. Women ’s suffrage in the United States‚ wikipedia web article visited on 9/13/2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States#Nineteenth_Amendment
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in 1968 for the journal Question. McCloskey is an Australian philosopher who wrote a number of atheistic works in the 1960s and 70s including the book God and Evil (Nijhoff‚ 1974). In this article‚ McCloskey is both critical of the classical arguments for God’s existence and offers the problem of evil as a reason why one should not believe in God. Your assignment is to read his short article‚ attached above‚ and respond to each of the questions below. The basis for your answers should primarily
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Descartes The proof of the existence of God was a topic of discussion during the early centuries until the first philosophers of the world decided to root for the truth and show the existence of God. In proving the existence of God in certain ways the arguments oppose each other‚ support each other and also some arguments seem to be more convincing than the other. The empirical arguments and the rationalistic arguments are the two types of arguments used in proving God’s existence. Anselm’s was among the
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or not to believe in God. What are the benefits? What are the consequences? I will argue that Pascal’s Wager is indeed persuasive to believing in God due to the appeal of one’s emotions and desires. One may object that Pascal is not thoroughly persuasive regarding that the belief in God’s existence is greater than not believing‚ but I will continue to argue that it is‚ and it can only offer the better reward. Pascal lays out multiple outcomes that come with the belief in God. He also gives the outcomes
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John Green (SIU85*******) Philosophy 305A-001‚ Paper #1 September 29‚ 2014 In his meditations‚ Descartes often references a “deceiver” that possess both supreme power and malicious intent. This deceiver uses its powers to deceive Descartes with a false reality‚ forcing him to question everything and take no sensory information as accurate unless said information can be logically proven correct. Of course‚ the malicious deceiver is not real‚ and Descartes does not actually believe it is. In his
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easier for humanity to accept that they will go on to a safe haven and be forgiven for all‚ rather than to question the existence of a super omnipotent being. Fortunately‚ there are some of us who tend to question the why ’s and how ’s that come before us. Immanuel Kant is a German philosopher who had the courage to question the proof of the existence of that being‚ which we call God. This essay will give a careful explanation of Kant’s criticism of the Ontological Argument looking at Kant’s analytic
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one of his main theses‚ which is the existence of God. One of the main premises that Descartes uses in his proof for the existence of God comes from the evil demon argument‚ which he proposed‚ in the first meditation. It is this evil demon argument‚ which will be the topic of the following discussion. The purpose of Descartes’ evil demon argument is to establish doubt upon his belief that God is the sole figure who puts thoughts into his mind. A God that he believes to be an omnipotent
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Why are there no stars during the day ? Even when I was young‚ I was always fascinated by the stars in the night sky. I always stare at them for I treated them as the most awesome things in the universe. Oh how they sparkle in the sky. The strange thing is that they always vanish during the day and I asked everybody‚ “Why is that?” After the sunset the stars become visible in the sky. When the darkness of sky increases‚ the number of stars and their brightness also increases. As the sun come
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