Existence of God

Clifford’s argument states that we shouldn’t believe anything upon insufficient evidence. Insufficient evidence is any type of evidence that has not been tested or proven for. Good sufficient evidence is accurately true without any doubts. He believes anything tested and proven builds up a society and strengthens it. In this paper, I will be discussing Clifford’s argument and the objections and Clifford’s responses to those objections. Clifford’s argues that when we believe something we should

influences in religion as well as many religious influences in many types of philosophies. Many figures in history have shaped both of these fields and contributed to them in many ways including belief systems regarding the nature of the world, human existence, and ethics. Many religious figures focused more on religious endeavors more than philosophical ones. Jesus of Nazareth and Gautama Buddha are two examples of spiritual figures who have religious followings even until this day. It should be pointed

feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men.., so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine" . This definition is rather broad and vague, so I seek to narrow it down to “the existence of a higher power, moral order or god.” His thesis can be paraphrased as the following: When we have a genuine option that cannot be conclusively decided based on intellectual grounds,

his wife, not the horses mate that he was referring to for a horse cannot get married. The trailer that the author is referring to was the man’s and his wife’s own trailer, not the man, his wife, and horse trailer. 1. The first objection to the existence of God is the proponent of the Cosmological Argument makes the mistake of the collection of dependent beings as it itself one big depended

5. Therefore, a maximally great being exists in the actual world. 6. Therefore, a maximally great being exists. 7. Therefore, God exists. Now it might be a surprise to learn that steps 2—7 of this argument are relatively uncontroversial. Most philosophers would agree that if God's existence is even possible, then he must exist. So the whole question is: Is God's existence possible? The atheist has to maintain that it's impossible

Patel Phil 104 Fall 2017 October 2, 2017 Paper 1: On Mackie’s Argument In J. L. Mackie’s “Evil and Omnipotence,” the author presents an argument detailing why belief in a both omnipotent and wholly good God is contradictory to a God who allows evil to exist. He utilizes this philosophy to show that God doesn’t exist due to the problem of evil. As Mackie’s delineates in his first paragraph, “I think, however, that a more telling criticism can be made by way of the traditional problem of evil. Here it

Believe. There are three elements to observe when dealing with a hypothesis. Jame 's noted we must ask is our hypothesis dead or living, forced or avoidable, momentous. What the Will to Believe is advocating is one can morally or rationally believe in God or something, even if there is not sufficient intellectual evidence for such a belief. We answer the questions which are outlined on page 292 over the three points on the grounds of our “passional nature.” Passional nature means are based on our emotions

According to Aquinas, the existence of God can be proven in 5 ways, namely through the arguments of motion, efficient cause, possibility and necessity, gradation, and governance of the world. Motion is regarded by Aquinas as a thing observable. Man can prove that with his senses that things are in motion. It is necessary to believe that movers are put in motion by another mover. Because that is, nothing can be both potential motion and actual motion at the same time in the same respects for either

of religion and a God. Religion for theists is crucial and forms a focal point of their beliefs. For atheists, religion and a God in particular, are not worthwhile and are considered a waste of time. (Blackburn, 1999) Hence, the concept of God and whether God exists has been argued and questioned over thousands of years. Countless disputes and contradictory statements have occurred with no such ultimate conclusion finalised. The main crux of this essay is to show how God can exist by referring

Aristotle imagines an infinitely vast and eternally complicated universe, all under the control of a divine being. He states that the reason for the universe must be love because if God did not desire the universe, He would not allow the universe to exist. Through further observation, Aristotle then claims that a change must be caused to change. It is through these changes that all physical entities appear only temporarily. He then claims that there are four fundamental principles that describe all