References: 1. Scientist who believe in God‚ http://www.godandscience.org/apologetics/sciencefaith.html#.UENao5a8irg 2. Women ’s suffrage in the United States‚ wikipedia web article visited on 9/13/2012 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_States#Nineteenth_Amendment
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in 1968 for the journal Question. McCloskey is an Australian philosopher who wrote a number of atheistic works in the 1960s and 70s including the book God and Evil (Nijhoff‚ 1974). In this article‚ McCloskey is both critical of the classical arguments for God’s existence and offers the problem of evil as a reason why one should not believe in God. Your assignment is to read his short article‚ attached above‚ and respond to each of the questions below. The basis for your answers should primarily
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are arguments declaring that God exists by comparing the natural world with human creations. One of the most famous design arguments was written by William Paley. Paley compared the natural world to that of a watch. He said that a watch could in no way form naturally as it was far too complex. This is the basis for all design arguments; our world and everything in it is too complex to be created so randomly and without help. This argument is not about a religious God or Heaven or Hell‚ it is simply
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John Green (SIU85*******) Philosophy 305A-001‚ Paper #1 September 29‚ 2014 In his meditations‚ Descartes often references a “deceiver” that possess both supreme power and malicious intent. This deceiver uses its powers to deceive Descartes with a false reality‚ forcing him to question everything and take no sensory information as accurate unless said information can be logically proven correct. Of course‚ the malicious deceiver is not real‚ and Descartes does not actually believe it is. In his
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Teleology is an argument of God’s existence following the evidence of order defined as the design of nature. Teleological arguments also known as arguments from design‚ explain the order in the universe to the existence of God. The universe is believed to be ordered towards some end or a certain purpose. It is more reasonable to suggest that the universe was created by an intelligent being to accomplish a purpose rather than it being there by chance (McGrath‚ 2010). The teleological argument has
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Descartes The proof of the existence of God was a topic of discussion during the early centuries until the first philosophers of the world decided to root for the truth and show the existence of God. In proving the existence of God in certain ways the arguments oppose each other‚ support each other and also some arguments seem to be more convincing than the other. The empirical arguments and the rationalistic arguments are the two types of arguments used in proving God’s existence. Anselm’s was among the
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easier for humanity to accept that they will go on to a safe haven and be forgiven for all‚ rather than to question the existence of a super omnipotent being. Fortunately‚ there are some of us who tend to question the why ’s and how ’s that come before us. Immanuel Kant is a German philosopher who had the courage to question the proof of the existence of that being‚ which we call God. This essay will give a careful explanation of Kant’s criticism of the Ontological Argument looking at Kant’s analytic
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one of his main theses‚ which is the existence of God. One of the main premises that Descartes uses in his proof for the existence of God comes from the evil demon argument‚ which he proposed‚ in the first meditation. It is this evil demon argument‚ which will be the topic of the following discussion. The purpose of Descartes’ evil demon argument is to establish doubt upon his belief that God is the sole figure who puts thoughts into his mind. A God that he believes to be an omnipotent
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or not to believe in God. What are the benefits? What are the consequences? I will argue that Pascal’s Wager is indeed persuasive to believing in God due to the appeal of one’s emotions and desires. One may object that Pascal is not thoroughly persuasive regarding that the belief in God’s existence is greater than not believing‚ but I will continue to argue that it is‚ and it can only offer the better reward. Pascal lays out multiple outcomes that come with the belief in God. He also gives the outcomes
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RS I believe that God doesn’t exist due to the fact that if there is a supposed omni-benevolent God then why is the world is full of so much evil and suffering? Evil and suffering comes in two forms Moral evil and Natural evil. Moral evil is caused by humans using their free will‚ for example‚ crimes such as murder‚ burglary and war. Natural evil is suffering that has not been caused by humans such as earthquakes‚ floods‚ volcanoes‚ cancers and so on and are therefore not caused by humans. These
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