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What are the different proofs presented for the existence of God?
Noor Khan
ID #1307023900
February 19th 2014
“What are the different proofs presented for the existence of God? Discuss those proofs and state whether they convince you or not and why?”
PHIL 201 – Section C
Word Count: 1,898

I pledge this is my own work.

God: All-Seeing, All-Hearing, Almighty, and all fiction? Believers indicate God as an all-powerful, divine being of supreme devotion. Yet, even though the belief in God and the worship of his power are reliant, they are discrete entities, which can draw breath without the presence of the other. Religions are human institutions that relate humanity to an order of existence; morality, ethics, religious laws and lifestyles are derived from it. They are systems of belief designed to enhance the experience of faith. In simpler words, there is a difference between believing in God and having faith in him. So, in this essay, I will solely look at the different proofs that attest the existence of God, challenging popular convections of theism with atheism and personal belief. Ever since the dawn of mankind, Homo sapiens have wondered about their origins. Human imagination is the power that separates humanity from all the other animals on Earth—capable of comprehending the wonders of nature and the world we live in. Through our imagination, we have the power to see and understand the beauty that surrounds us. Something must have created all this magnificent beauty. Our imagination and our innate need for cognitive closure is our link with God, without it we would know nothing of the possibility of God’s existence nor would we be able to comprehend the wonders of His work. Still, this does not prove his existence. So, by the means of Aristotelian logical principles, we apply the law of causality to ourselves. Doing so, we find that existence of life began by the means of the formation of the universe. To which we ask, what caused the existence of the universe? This is

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