...A Problem Exists William Baughan Prof Valentine ENG 215 11/5/2013 A Problem Exists The liberals in our political system have always tried to get rid of guns that they are a danger to us as a society and the conservatives and libertarians follow the Second Amendment of our Constitution. The Second Amendment gives us the right to keep and bear arms as well as protection from others. I believe citizens should be permitted to carry concealed weapons in their workplaces, such as schools and offices, which would deter criminals, increase security, and create an atmosphere of safety. Homicides by weapon type, 1976-2004. Gun-involved homicides have increased since falling to a low in 1999. Homicides by weapon type, 1976-2004. Gun-involved homicides have increased since falling to a low in 1999. (Berry, 2013)First, gun violence has been a topic of conversation in the political arena for a long time. The most common gun violence as well as violence by itself occurs in poor urban areas usually associated with gang violence. There has been a lot of school shooting such as the Virginia Tech shootings and Columbine high school massacre. It’s almost like clockwork when mass shootings occur there will be a debate on gun laws. Politicians have sought for the correct balance between what regulations to add and what not to add. Second, there has been an increase number of violence in schools that usually involve guns. Every day you turn on the news or read...
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...and the traditional Cosmological argument. Although his arguments are strong and relatively truthful, they do no prove the existence of God. At the start of the meditation, Descartes begins by rejecting all his beliefs, so that he would not be deceived by any misconceptions from reaching the truth. Descartes acknowledges himself as, “a thing that thinks: that is, a thing that doubts, affirms, denies, understands a few things, is ignorant of many things” He is certain that that he thinks and exists because his knowledge and ideas are both ‘clear and distinct’. Descartes proposes a general rule, “that whatever one perceives very clearly and very distinctly is true” Descartes discovers, “that he can doubt what he clearly and distinctly perceives is true led to the realization that his first immediate priority should be to remove the doubt” because, “no organized body of knowledge is possible unless the doubt is removed” The best probable way to remove the doubt is prove that God exists, that he is not a deceiver and “will always guarantee that any clear and distinct ideas that Descartes second argument for proving God’s existence is very straightforward. He has four possibilities that created his existence. Through process of elimination he is left with God being his creator. Descartes succeeded in some parts of his proof for the existence of God, but failed in proving God’s existence from a logical point of view. Most religions prove that anybody can be right in his...
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...Outline Introduction: Where there is design, there is a designer. Thesis: G-d created the world in six days as described in the Book of Genesis, chapter one. Argument (point) #1: Apollo Argument (point) #2: The Cranium and the Brain Argument (point) #3: Hibernation: The bear Argument (point) #4: The painted turtle. The deer, the squirrel and the woodpecker: Conclusion: All societies since the creation of the world comprehend that acumen and intellect originate from a superior Intelligence. As described in Genesis chapter one, G-d created the world in six days. Does God Exist? Where there is design, there is a designer. Those who choose to disbelieve must twist their logic into pretzels in order to accommodate the misinformation they feed themselves. They expend endless energy positing the truth of their assertions to the rest of the world. In a sense, lack of faith is easier because it absolves the denier of any obligation, appreciation or indebtedness to The Creator. G-d created the world in six days as described in the Book of Genesis, chapter one. Frank observation by rational persons of any of the smallest quantifiable aspects of this ordered world will lead to the conclusion that there is a Creator. They can choose to examine a leaf, a gnat or a blood cell. “All roads lead home”. They must each draw the same conclusion. I have chosen examples from the human body and from nature that are but tiny illustrations of the glory, the profound intelligence...
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...Assignment 3: A Problem Exists Shalonda Green Professor Wheeler ENG215 May 8, 2015 With the new Affordable Healthcare Care Act everybody is required to have some type of medical Insurance. Should taxes on alcohol and tobacco be increased to help pay for rising medical costs? Medical expenses are rising by the year and we need to find out how to get some assistance to pay for these rising cost and alcohol and tobacco is a necessity and people will pay for it regardless. Taxes on alcohol and tobacco should be increased to help to pay for rising medical cost because it would help the middle and lower class, may lower the influence on tobacco and alcohol, and lower copays. The Affordable Care Act expands the affordability, quality, and availability of private and public health insurance through consumer protections, regulations, subsidies, taxes, insurance exchanges, and other reforms. That makes it easier for everyone to get insurance and also makes it mandatory for everyone to get insurance. However, you must obtain and maintain minimum essential coverage throughout the year, get an exemption, or face a tax penalty for each month you go without coverage. First, Taxes on alcohol and tobacco should be increased to help to pay for rising medical cost because it would help the middle and lower class. Medical expenses in a whole are expensive even with the affordable healthcare act. Which puts a strain on the lower and middle class who is already struggling and trying to maintain...
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...Does God Exist The question of God’s existence has lingered in the mind of man since the dawn of religion. The simple fact that billions of people consider themselves to have some allegiance to a deity means that this question deserves to be seriously considered. In this paper I will argue for the sake that God does exist and the reasons why. I will include many of the arguments found in our philosophy book and those covered in class as well as other subjects such as human suffering and the reasons God chose to make the world as it is today, also including examples from life and the movies we watched in class. St. Thomas Aquinas had many arguments for the existence of God and one of those was the fifth way. In the argument of the fifth way Aquinas says “The fifth way is taken from the governance of the world. We see that things which lack knowledge, such as natural bodies, act for an end, and this is evident from their acting always, or nearly always, in the same way, so as to obtain the best result. Hence it is plain that they achieve their end, not fortuitously, but designedly. Now whatever lacks knowledge cannot move towards an end, unless it be directed by some being endowed with knowledge and intelligence; as the arrow is directed by the archer. Therefore, some intelligent being exists by whom all natural things are directed to their end; and this being we call God”. Here St. Thomas Aquinas is basically saying that the existence of order and apparent purpose in the universe...
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...June 1, 2013 Seminar Paper 1 Chapter 1 Does God exist? The question of “is there a God” has been asked ever since Man became conscious of his existence. It is a question rooted in the understanding that we did not create ourselves or the world we live in, therefore something greater than Man must exist. There is a need to know what created us in order for us to discover why we were created. Having a “God concept” allows us to rationalize things we don’t understand such as miracles, freak accidents, death, and eternity. The “God concept” gives us hope and something to strive for because we believe that we can become one with or be like the thing that created us. We program our lives around the characteristics we believe God possess. We decided what we will and won’t do based on our beliefs of what God does and doesn’t like. We live each day believing that if we act in accordance with what we believe is the will of God, that when we die we won’t be faced with eternal suffering. The belief that there is a God is man’s way of answering the unanswerable questions of creation, life, purpose, death, and the future. Because we don’t actually know the truth, we will use God as the source and sustainer of all things. The Design Argument The Design Argument is the most plausible of all arguments concerning the existence of a God. It states that “If we look around us at the natural world we can’t help noticing how everything in it is suited to the function it performs: everything...
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...Abstract In this study I will be investigating whether Gaydar does in fact exist and if one gender has a stronger Gaydar than the other. I will also be testing to see is both males and females can distinguish other homosexuals based on appearance alone as well as being able to tell which ones are not homosexual. I will be attempting to find out if people that are straight can also tell if someone is homosexual based on appearance alone as viewed in a full length color picture. I will be using 40 participants (20 males and 20 females) that either identify sexually as gay or straight. The participants will all be shown a series of 20 pictures for 30 seconds each, of males and females, and will be asked to identify whether they think the person shown in the picture is either straight or gay. The males and females in the pictures will have been previously identified as being either gay or straight. All results, statements and answers will be kept confidential. Does Gaydar Exist? The issue of a person’s sexual identity has always been a controversial issue for some. When it comes to the Gay and Lesbian community there is a saying or “Theory” that someone who identifies themselves sexually as homosexual has a sixth sense that is referred to as “Gaydar”. This means that for some reason it is believed that other homosexuals can spot each other out based on appearance alone. This idea that gays may have some sort of sixth sense or ability to tell if someone else...
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...Introduction God is the source of much doubt and controversy, of peace and of war. At this point in our human existence what was once certain and unquestionable has become the most questioned topic. The faithful, believing people have become unsure. I guess the question is either God exists or He doesn't. There really is no middle territory, and any attempt to remain neutral in relation to God's existence is automatically putting you in the category of unbelief. The age old question is far from being an irrelevant one, because if God does exist, then nothing else really matters; if He does not exist, then what does really matter at all. Until now I've never been put in a position where my faith was questioned. I found this title somewhere, I cannot remember where I saw it, but it describes me the best it can; as a recovering Catholic, I really am in no man’s land. Do I believe or not believe, that is the stand I have to take in this paper one way or another, yes or no, black or white. At that point this became more than a final paper. Can I, comfortably write a paper stating that God does not exist? After thorough personal inflection, I had my answer, and with much of my upbringing weighing down on me. I will try making my case for the existence of God. ("God." Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. 2009. Merriam-Webster Online. 29 April 2009) What better place to start, than Simon Blackburn On Blackburn's projectivist view; after he sketched the outlines of his projectivist...
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...Where do you find a variety of different animals from all over the world in one place? A place where almost everyone has been when they were young. A zoo keeps many animals in a confined space, but should zoos exist? No, I don’t think zoos should exist because the animals aren’t there for education purposes, the zoos aren’t actually doing what they’re claiming to and the artificial habitat is really nothing like their original one. Would animals like being in a zoo? I don’t think so. Zoos claim to display or give educational opportunities, but most visitors only spend a few minutes at each enclosure, looking for entertainment rather than awareness. Most zoo enclosures are small, and instead of understanding the animals usual habits, signs often provide no more information than an animal’s species, diet, history and natural habitats. Animals are cramped together, lack privacy, and have small chances for physical exercise. These conditions usually result in abnormal and suicidal behaviour, known as “zoochosis.” How many people who go to the zoo actually take the time to go and read everything on a sign? Most people just go to the zoo to look at animals and if they don’t do anything “interesting” they move along to the next display hoping for “interesting” things to happen. Though the zoos say that they are helping save near extinct species, why aren’t they trying to preserve the animals’ natural habitat? In fact the zoo itself might be the one responsible for the extinction...
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...I think God does exist, firstly look at the world and how complex it is.. The make up of our bodies and how we have a set number of chromosomes from our mum and our dad which creates us as we are, the complexity of how our body functions how our heart pumps blood around our body how our brain works. The exact make up of the earth that is just right for humans to live, one fraction closer to the sun and earth wouldn't be suitable for human life. Secondly, the make up of the universe the distance from the sun, the moon the way the planets orbit the sun seems to much of a coincidence to just be perfect for the existence of human life. Even if the Big Bang is real what caused it? The chances of it happening at the exact right millisecond for it to cause the world to exist is very unlikely in my opinion and therefore if the big bang did take place something must have caused it, the Big Bang has no proof it is a theory no one was around at the time so therefore no one will ever know if it happened or not and cannot be justified as fact. Also is infinity real? something must have caused the universe it can't go on forever. Like cause an effect if you take things back everything that exists exists from something else, every effect has a cause therefore the universe must have a cause and it is more likely that God exists uncaused than the the universe existing uncaused. The world must have an intelligent designer, everything in the universe abides by the laws of physics and many these...
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...Does God Exist? No, in my opinion from all of the information that I have been exposed to, I can easily state that there is no all powerful being that created each and every one of us, and that knows all and watches us at all times. Throughout my life I have been feed Bible verses and told many a stories about how God is always there for you, if you pray he will listen, he will help you with all of your troubles; however none of this can be proven with any amount of facts whatsoever. Ask a devout Christian how God does it, or how they know he exists, and their answer is very simple “It’s called Faith, if we believe he will help us, then he will”. For the first 15 years of my life I was brought up as a very strict 7th Day Adventist (Sub-section of Christianity), I was told that God was perfect and we were to strive to be just like him in every aspect of our life, we were to go to church on the 7th day and refrain from any other activities. They use the Bible daily to try and justify their beliefs…a book that could have been written by anyone, at any time throughout history, think of it as a game of “The Telephone” where a group of kids sits in a circle and a story begins with one person, who then whispers it to the next and so on until the circle is complete. The final product is almost always completely different than that of the original story, and we have been told that the Bible is over 2000 years old and has been translated hundreds of times into different languages...
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...This paper is going to be about the two philosophers Thomas Aquinas and Bertrand Russell. Each of them argues about the existence of God, and both have different opinions on it. Aquinas’ argument is about efficient causation, whereas Russell’s is the first-cause argument. I believe that Thomas Aquinas’s argument was validly challenged by by Bertrand Russell’s argument. I believe that Russell’s argument and Aquinas’ argument were both very well put together but I do believe that Russell’s argument is more valid than Aquinas’ because there is more hard evidence and facts that prove he is right, compared to Aquinas’ argument, which is more mind based and harder to grasp. There are less reasons proven to believe Aquinas’ argument over Russell’s argument. Aquinas’s argument is based on efficient causation. Efficient causation is easily understood by saying that for x to be the cause of y is for x to bring about y, or to explain y. Aquinas says that efficient cause comes in series, or causal chains. We basically cannot prove or see that something has its own efficient cause. If something happens, then something before it caused it to happen, and so on. Aquinas says “Therefore, if there were no first efficient cause, then there would be no last or intermediary efficient causes.” (Aquinas, 45). Aquinas argues that without this or any chain of events, then things would not happen. But he says that there has to be a first efficient cause. “We must therefore posit a first efficient cause...
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...Technological innovation is practically underestimated that if society was left with outfit for a day it would make so much bedlam. The loss of innovation would make most consider how much simpler life is with it. It likewise would be to a great degree captivating how to perceive how individuals adjust to the loss of innovation. These days a great many people have a tendency to correspond with the utilization of innovation all the more conveying verbally. The lost benefit to impart through innovation would one the most troublesome things individuals would need to manage. This would in all likelihood cause issues in the working environment, specialists won't have the capacity to convey messages nor utilize their cell phones. Without online networking and innovation whatever is left of the world would be left distanced from whatever is left of the world. Social Network and computers are so important to the world's industrialization of society. Many aspects of society would negatively affected if technology disappeared for one day. From the office to schools the repercussions of a world wide loss of technology would be crucial. Technology/ Social Media isn’t just to communicate, but most people nowadays use technology to pay bills, transfer money, access medical records etc. The loss of technology would have a major effect on my day to day life. It would make difficult for me to express myself, and for me to get in contact with my friends and family. In all honesty I believe if...
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...anything "out there." The world of philosophy consists of so many unanswered questions. One such question is whether or not God exists. This is the very question that has grasped the imagination of humanity since the birth of reason, and the same question that has plagued scientists and philosophers without coming close to an accepted conclusion. God is a word that means different things to different people. The definition for God, according to most monotheistic religions is the creator and ruler of the universe, and the source of all moral authority. When it comes to the possibility of God's existence, the Bible states that there are people who have seen sufficient evidence, but they have suppressed the truth about God. Up to this day, there are many differing opinions as to whether a God exists or not. The great controversy has led to my personal belief that God exists through the teleological, ontological and cosmological arguments. These major ideas help to back up my statement that God exists. Based on our everyday experiences, just about everything seems to have a beginning. William Paley was a philosopher during the eighteenth century who is best known for his exposition of the teleological argument for the existence of God. Derived from the Greek word "telos" which means "design or purpose", the teleological argument proposes that God must exist because the inner workings of the universe are too complicated and precise to just have come about on it's own. Through often...
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...Arvin D. Medlock Jr. PHIL 201-DO2 Professor R.D. Kuykendall 5 May 3, 2015 McCloskey Response Paper “On Being an Atheist” Does God Exist? That is the question we face! For many years Theists and Atheist have debated this question for many years along with their central views and beliefs that we as human being rely on as it relates to Life and God. The Point of views and debates center around the Cosmological Argument, the Teleological argument (argument from Design) and the most debated argument as it relates to this topic called the Problem with evil? When questioning wither or not God Exist these traditional arguments play significant roles in investigating and proving or discrediting someone’s view or stance on this specific Philosophical belief. As you read McCloskey article “On Being an Atheist” he argues the Theist stance who believe in the Existence of God from the perspective view of an Atheist. McCloskey in writing this Article is not trying to discredit their belief in the Existence of God, but to raise questions, doubts and uncertainties concerning their arguments on which they stand on to prove their belief by ultimately concluding that the Theist arguments are not valid and should be disregarded as evidence to prove their belief in the existence of God. The problem with McCloskey argument against the argument of Theistic View is the Theist argument is not to literally prove their belief concretely on the existence of God, but there view is design to give...
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