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argue Gods existence within its own definition. Without any sort of relationship with other concrete statements, the entire argume...
Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....
supporters of the argument from design see a babys perfect little fingers with unique fingerprints and the fact that the honey bee...
cause of the effect must possess as much reality as the effect. Furthermore, Descartes asserts that any cause must have as much p...
controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...
While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...
that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...
the universe and the cells of life on the planet, it was assumed that this enormous and highly intricate mechanism had a designer ...
of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...
at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...
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...
speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...
youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...
be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...
is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...
constant when the resultant external force acting on the system is zero" and if the system is the universe there are no external f...
various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...
as a bridge so that people with different understandings can nevertheless come to understand and appreciate one anothers views. ...
that he be deceived since God is supremely good. Nevertheless, it does appear to Descartes that there is a good possibility that G...
believed deeply in the value of ethics as it related to humans in the natural world. His concept of forming an adequate ethical c...
Power is behind all that we perceive, then the Higher Power would be a deceitful one. Descartes arrives at this conclusion becaus...
conception of what is perceived. Some ideas appear to be innate, while others appear to originate elsewhere and come to the mind i...
is a rather immense task that philosophers have been dealing with for quite some time. The fact that no one can know the answer f...
Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...
In a paper consisting of eight pages the existence of God is predicated on philosophical as opposed to religious supporting argume...
In nine pages this paper presents the 'First Cause' concept and analytically proves it to be invalid with references made to the t...
any scientific evidence to prove that a higher power created the universe. It is, most likely, as with humans, a product of evolu...
broke the argument down in a much easier argument (Palmer, 2002). Descartes began with the premise that God is the only being who ...
than a man can do the same for God, if there is a God. In essence, if God exists then God is a being that is capable of creating a...
from the Appearances of Nature (Beebe, 2002). In this text, Paley wrote: There cannot be design without a designer; contrivance wi...