Research Paper on God It seems clear that philosophy somehow is relevant to the important questions human beings deal eighth in their everyday lives. The existence of God is one of the basic questions in philosophy. The concept of god is ambiguous and differs from person to person and from society to society. Theists believe that God exists, atheists that he doesn’t, and agnostics that we don’t have a good reason to believe in one-way or the other (Slick). There are many arguments for the existence
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3. However, if a thing cannot think for itself it does not have any goal or purpose unless it is directed by something that thinks: take an arrow as an example. It can only be directed to its goal and used for its purpose by someone, such as an archer. 4. Conclusion: everything in the natural world that does not think for itself heads towards its goal or purpose because it is directed by something which does think. That something we call ‘God’. William Paley Part 1. 1. Paley suggests that if
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Religion: Can one be Moral and not believe in God Tomeka Lynch PHI208 Jeffrey Porter 7/7/13 Abstract “A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hopes of reward after death ” (Albert Einstein) Religion is about beliefs and individual views that relate to what they
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occurs in problem of evil is that how God and evil can exists together, for instance if God exists, then there should be the prevention of evil, and if evil exists in the world that shows that God does not exist. This problem is logically explained by the Augustine in this paragraph. All powerful, all knowing and perfectly nice God would not allow any evil or suffering in the world. Augustine considers God as “completely innocent of evil”, the almighty all powerful God all good wouldn’t create anything
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belief of God. The essay will explain the philosophers view points on the religion of God. There are a few arguments of which existence is the strongest. It will explain many aspects on science and religion, atheism, moral and human freedom on God’s existence. Believing in God and believing in God’s existence can have many aspects with different views from philosophers, the arguments will explain which philosopher is more compelling than the other. When it comes to the existence of God, some philosophers
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increase in philosophical explorations into the divine characteristics of God. A particular divine aspect that intrigues philosophers is God’s relationship to time (Woodruff). One perspective on God is that He is timeless. This theory proposes that when God created the universe He created time with it, and therefore He is outside of time. The physical universe known to humankind is governed by space, time, and matter. God, however, dwells not in the physical world but outside of it, beyond space
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Augustine believed that time did not exist while God created the world but that time was something that the people wanted to believe, that it only existed in our minds just as the past and the future do. One of his biggest beliefs was the existence of God since he became a Christian. Letting people know what he believed was the truth was something he was willing to do every day, of course believing was difficult if you did not have an open mind or have the passion of a religion. It takes a lot to
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H.J. McCloskey, claims that “proofs” offered by theists for the existence of God simply do not provide evidence that there is one omnipotent, omniscient being. His arguments about “proofs” question why people are theists, and why theists should abandon their arguments or “proofs”. He claims that most people do not believe in God because of their lack of knowledge about evolution, but in fact most theist believe in God and consider themselves theists, because there is documented evidence that supersedes
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that God has to have every perfect feature since he is the perfect being. However, Anselm’s argument is false since existence is not a predicate. To prove this argument, Moore establishes an analogy and compares two sentences; tigers growl and tigers exist. Since the word growl is a predicate and makes sense in any usage of it such as all tigers growl, most tigers growl, and some tigers growl. However, when the word exist applies to the same examples such as all tigers exist, most tigers exist and
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The Problem Of Evil There are many events throughout the world that occur, that we cannot explain. The evils that exist are moral and non-moral evils. The moral evils that exist are poverty, oppression, persecution, war and injustice. The non-moral evils that occur frequently but not usually on a daily basis are earthquakes, hurricanes, storms, flood, drought, and blight (philosophy. Lander.edu/intro/hick.stml). These evils happen with thousands of people dying daily for no reason. The problem
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