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a perfect idea has to have been placed in the human mind by a perfect being or God, which is equivalent to Descartes Third Meditat...
idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...
cosmological argument. As mentioned above, an ontological approach uses a deductive argument which "claims that its premises can b...
being" (Burnham, 2001). In order for our universe to have taken on the form that it has, it has been necessary, according t...
In six pages philosophers such as Immanuel Kant and Thomas Aquinas are incorporated into a series of student submitted questions a...
In three pages this paper discusses how God's existence was argued by Saint Thomas Aquinas. There is no bibliography included....
from the known. Unless God is already known, logic is of no use. Having discredited all rational arguments for and against the ex...
In ten pages this paper argues in favor of the existence of God. Eight sources are cited in the bibliography....
goodness and evil. They are the opposite ends of a pendulum. If God existed there would be no observable evil. Since we know there...
In four pages this paper presents an autobiography of Saint Augustine and also considers his arguments on the existence of God....
Most people like an ordered existence. It makes them feel comfortable with the real uncertainty of life. Descartes made "doubt" a ...
by humanity, without turning to any other body of factual information or knowledge. In other words, it is possible for people to c...
the ultimate good. If God has created finite spirits endowed with free will, it must be expected that this free will is going to...
In five pages this paper examines Aquinas' 5 arguments on God's existence and exposes the errors in his 2nd argument. Three sourc...
do know for certain that objects exist, we must know of them through the mind and not the senses (Important arguments ...). Desca...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
image, a form, or a judgement, and concludes that an image or what individuals perceive as form can never be false. However, erro...
In five pages this paper examines skepticism, cogito, the truth rule, and the circular argument about God's existence within the c...
as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...
In ten pages this research paper presents arguments on God's existence both pro and con and discusses beliefs of atheists. Eight ...
to God or to some type of "Ultimate Reality" (16). Such an experience differs from religious insight in that a religious insight ...
In five pages God's existence as it is considered within the context of Mortimer Adler's How to Think about God A Guide for the 20...
with a wholly different sort of argument. He states that if the universe has an intelligent designer (i.e., the cosmological argum...
In a paper consisting of three pages the existence of God as it is presented in the 'Watchmaker' argument is critiqued with extens...
In seven pages this paper examines the perspectives of this seventeenth century philosopher in terms of man's natural existence an...
the idea of punishment; the God of the Old Testament is particularly fierce in his judgments. So perhaps morality is in reality f...
one thing causing another to come into existence. While scientists can argue persuasively that the Big Bang was the beginning of t...
of the world (1993). Yet, one can see this in action in smaller ways. Another way to look at the world is through the model called...
the universe reveals that the natural world provides a graduated scale of existence, from lower beings to those that are higher or...
various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...