as evidence for the existence of God’ A religious experience is an encounter with God when you experience transcendent reality and it you cannot will it to happen. A direct religious experience refers to events where God reveals him/herself directly to the person having the experience. The experience is not chose or willed by the person; the person experiences or observes God in some way. An indirect religious experience refers to experiences‚ thoughts or feelings about God that are prompted by
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its reasoning and is not a convincing argument for one to believe in God‚ but it can be applicable to a catered category of people. Pascal’s Wagers main issue is that it is not an epistemic argument. Before just dismissing Pascal’s Wager as not an epistemic argument‚ one must understand what an epistemic argument is. An epistemic argument is an argument that must be rational‚ reasonable and justified in order to be believed. For instance‚ if one believes in God because one experienced a miracle and
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The Teleological Argument is the argument from a design stand point. The argument implies that a higher source of intelligence had to come up with the design in which the universe came into existence. McCloskey come up with numerous reason against this argument that suggest the Teleological Argument is not adequate in proving God exist. A design must have a designer and us as humans couldn’t create the earth ourselves even if we put all our thinking caps together‚ the creator of this world had to
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The Republic: Important ideas and arguments. INTRODUCTION The fundamental aim of the Republic is to define justice. In the pursuit to defining justice Socrates engages in a range of discussions in these discussions many important ideas and arguments are presented. This essay will discuss five of the most important ideas and arguments displayed in the Republic as well as stating the reasons for their importance in Plato’s justice argument. The essay concludes with
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Explain Darwin’s theory of Evolution and how it presents arguments against design and a designer. (30) A01 To answer this question productively‚ I must first‚ of course‚ explain both Darwin’s theory of evolution and the Design or teleological argument (D.A). Both offer a fairly comprehensive explanation of how the world came to be what it is today. We will first start with the theory of evolution. Charles Robert Darwin‚ was born on the 12th of February 1809‚ and is the founder of evolutionary
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paragraph‚ Descartes goes through the process of‚ what he believes to be‚ proving the conclusion: That corporeal objects do exist. In this essay Descartes’ argument will be deconstructed into its premises‚ explaining those premises‚ reconstructing the argument‚ and lastly evaluation of the validity and soundness of his argument. Descartes begins his argument my stating his first premise‚ which is that he has the abilities of Imagination and Perception and that he can conceive of himself without these abilities
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to create happiness for all stakeholders through the production of products and services that establish value for customers. However are the business decisions “right” or “ethical”? With relevance to business‚ Aristotle suggests three main arguments and ideas in the Nicomachean Ethics. First‚ appropriate virtues of character are the important principle in ethics that allows a person to be truly ethical and only through practicing and honing into these virtues does one exhibit sound moral judgement
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How convincing is the Kalam argument as proof of the existence of Allah The first premise is relatively uncontroversial‚ and is rooted in the metaphysical principle that out of nothing‚ nothing comes. The denial of the first premise‚ although strictly logically possible‚ is metaphysically unactualizable. By definition‚ nothing has no potentialities. Thus‚ it is impossible for something to arise out of nothing‚ for how can its existence be actualized if the potential is not there? The truth of the
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The knowledge argument challenges the idea that everything that exists in the world is purely physical (physicalism) by claiming that qualia exists and is not a physical property. ‘Qualia’ refers to the properties of a feeling from a conscious experience. For example‚ the qualia of red when you are looking at something that is red‚ or the qualia of pain when you have injured yourself. This theory discusses the idea of consciousness that cannot be logically concluded from physicalism through Frank
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The world appears designed‚ so God exists. Discuss. (30 marks) Plan: * DO NOT GO INTO ONE ABOUT GOD’S EXISTENCE!!! * Purpose and design appears to exist in nature * Mathematical formulas in nature * Gases in atmosphere * Evolution * If we were made in the image of god‚ then why are we such a new species and how come we didn’t exist from the beginning of time * Furthermore‚ why are we the only known humans on this planet and why if god was the creator has he made it
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