RELIGIOUS STUDIES: THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
- Created by: Chloe Hanslow
- Created on: 16-04-13 11:00
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- THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
- The Teleological (Design) argument
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- God keeps the universe in a set pattern
- William Paley
- Created the argument using the example of a watch
- Isaac Newton
- Thumbs are evidence of design
- The Anthropic Principle
- Earth was made just right for life
- Problems
- We cannot know that the world is designed , or if God is the designer
- Cruelty & suffering
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- The Big Bang theory
- Atheists use this theory to reject God
- Theists use this theory to support the Cosmological argument. They say God caused the Big Bang
- This theory is only a challenge to the First Cause argument if it is seen to be a spontaneous event without cause
- Argument from miracles
- The miracle has no natural explanation and must be God
- Argument from religious experience
- People claim to have experienced God
- The arument from morality
- God gives us our sense of morality
- The Teleological (Design) argument
- The Cosmological (First Cause) argument
- THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
- The Teleological (Design) argument
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- God keeps the universe in a set pattern
- William Paley
- Created the argument using the example of a watch
- Isaac Newton
- Thumbs are evidence of design
- The Anthropic Principle
- Earth was made just right for life
- Problems
- We cannot know that the world is designed , or if God is the designer
- Cruelty & suffering
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- The Big Bang theory
- Atheists use this theory to reject God
- Theists use this theory to support the Cosmological argument. They say God caused the Big Bang
- This theory is only a challenge to the First Cause argument if it is seen to be a spontaneous event without cause
- Argument from miracles
- The miracle has no natural explanation and must be God
- Argument from religious experience
- People claim to have experienced God
- The arument from morality
- God gives us our sense of morality
- The Teleological (Design) argument
- St. Thomas Aquinas
- Problems
- The argument contradicts itself
- We cannot prove that God caused the universe to come into existence
- Everything that exists was caused to exist. The universe exists so it must have a cause. There has to be something eternal that was not caused by anything. The eternal first cause if God. Therefore God exists
- THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
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