Existence of God
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- Created on: 13-03-17 17:41
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- Existence of God
- Teleological (Design) Argument
- For
- Universe is too complex to have come about by chance, therefore it must have been designed
- Aquinas
- Things that lack knowledge must be guided, therefore God must direct them
- For an arrow to reach its destination, it must be pointed by the archer
- Therefore we must be guided to our purpose by God, like the arrow
- Paley
- Anyone who has seen a pocket watch knows that it is too complicated to have come about by chance
- The universe is infinitely more complex, so it must also have a designer
- Tennant
- Anthropic Principle
- The universe is designed for human life
- If even one thing was different, we oouldn't exist
- The world is logical, and provides all the necessities for life
- Someone must have designed this, and this person is God
- The world is logical, and provides all the necessities for life
- Anthropic Principle
- Against
- Hume
- No proof there is only one god, or that it is the Christian God
- God is described as benevolent, and yet our world is full of suffering
- Similar effects do not always equal similar causes
- Aquinas assumes we can infer the cause by looking at something else, and this is not always the case
- We have nothing to compare it to, so we cannot say the Universe is ordered
- Random things occur, such as earthquakes and natural disasters
- There are no other universes observable, so we cannot say if it is ordered or disordered
- Order does not always mean it was designed
- Order may have surfaced from many random chances, such as evolution
- If it were disordered, we could not exist
- No proof there is only one god, or that it is the Christian God
- Hume
- For
- Cosmological (First Cause) Argument
- For
- Everything has a cause, and there cannot be an infinite regress of causes
- There must be an uncaused cause, and this is God
- Everything that exists is contingent - comes into and goes out of being
- If this is true then at one point nothing exists, and since something cannot come from nothing, nothing must exist now
- Since it is false to say nothing exists now, there must be a necessary (one who is eternal/ cannot not exist)
- We call this God
- Since it is false to say nothing exists now, there must be a necessary (one who is eternal/ cannot not exist)
- If this is true then at one point nothing exists, and since something cannot come from nothing, nothing must exist now
- Everything has a cause, and there cannot be an infinite regress of causes
- Against
- Who made God?
- If there is a cause, why the Christian God?
- The cause of the universe was the Big Bang, a random, uncaused event
- The universe may be eternal/why can there not be an infinite regress
- "I should say that the universe is just there, and that is all." - Bertrand Russel
- For
- Teleological (Design) Argument
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