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Jun 10, 2011 · In English the word “God” is understood by some to designate a mere psychological projection of a father-image and by others to indicate the Father of Jesus Christ and the ultimate reality with which we have to do.
- Gordon D. Kaufman
- 1966
Oct 6, 2023 · God in the contemporary meaning in life tradition. This section offers a brief overview of how God features in the analytic Anglo-American-Australasian literature on meaningfulness.
Here, in ‘Does God Exist?’, to complete the trilogy, I will lay out the reasons most philosophers doubt the existence of God: the best arguments for God fail, the most well-known argument against God succeeds, and philosophers are not keen to take things on faith.
- The cosmological argument. The cosmological argument is fairly straightforward. A modern version of it reads: Whatever begins to exist must have a cause for its existence.
- The problem of evil. The problem of evil is the most famous argument against the existence of an all-powerful and loving god. It’s also old. For example, it provides the central theme of the Book of Job in the Abrahamic traditions.
- The teleological argument. Also known as “the argument from design,” the teleological argument claims the world’s complexity proves a designer exists. The argument is, again, rather straightforward
- Russell’s teapot. One of the more whimsical arguments against the existence of any gods was put forward by Bertrand Russell. And like any member of the British aristocracy in good standing, the third Earl Russell invoked tea in his argument.
- David Kyle Johnson
- Davidjohnson@kings.edu
- “I say, no one can disprove God exists.” There are two things wrong here. First, it is not clear that this is true. It might actually be possible to prove that God does not exist.
- “For 2500 years, The Bible had it right and science had it wrong.” Josh’s argument to this conclusion is that, while scientists thought that the universe had always existed (they accepted The Steady State theory which says that the universe has an infinite past), the Bible maintained that it had a beginning.
- God Is Why There Is Something, Rather Than Nothing. To make this argument, Josh says “In the real world, we never see things jumping into existence out of nothingness, but atheists want to make one small exception to this rule: namely, the universe and everything in it.”
- God Does Not Need an Explanation Because He Is Eternal. Josh presents this argument in reply to a student who quotes Dawkins: “[I]n his book, The God Delusion , Richard Dawkins says that if you tell me God created the universe then I have the right to ask you who created God.”
One argument to prove God’s existence is known as the ‘ontological argument’ — an argument which, by reason alone – proves that, the very idea of God as a perfect being means that God must exist, that his non-existence would be contradictory. These kinds of a priori arguments rely on logical deduction, rather than something
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May 25, 2024 · A necessary being, on which all contingent things depend, is what we mean by “God”. Conclusion: Therefore, God exists. However, there are several weaknesses in the Cosmological Argument, which make it unable to “prove” the existence of God by itself.
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