Does science make belief in God obsolete? Yes‚ if by… No‚ and yes. Absolutely not! Not necessarily. Of course not. No. No‚ but it should. No. Yes. No‚ not at all. It depends. Of course not. No‚ but only if… Steven Pinker Christoph Cardinal Schönborn William D. Phillips Pervez Amirali Hoodbhoy Mary Midgley Robert Sapolsky Christopher Hitchens Keith Ward Victor J. Stenger Jerome Groopman Michael Shermer Kenneth Miller Stuart Kauffman 2 4 7 9 11 13 15 17 19 21 23 25 27 Does science make belief in God
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an extraterrestrial is the reason for my existence‚ I do believe that science disproves the existence of God. How can there be room for ideas such as heaven and hell and an ever-present God when the universe is so vast and inconceivable to the human mind? In this aforementioned vastness of the universe‚ who is to say that more intelligent life does not exist and that science explains the complexity of Earth and human life. Therefore‚ like Shermer‚ in spite of what science says‚ I belief in the belief
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occupies an important role in the 21st century. Modern advancements have made life on earth much easier for the human race. In the last one-hundred years‚ progress in astrophysics has resulted in man’s ability to give an approximation of the age of the universe. Advances in the medical sciences have extended the average life-span‚ and increased the general well-being of humans in industrialized nations. For these reasons‚ I posit the hypothesis that technology is one of the most important creations in the
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design of a watch allows all the parts to work together perfectly to achieve its purpose. He then noted the complexity‚ order and purpose of the universe‚ stating that "every manifestation on design‚ which existed in the watch‚ exists in the works of nature." Therefore if a watch’s intricacy stands as evidence that it has been designed‚ by analogy the universe must also have a designer and‚ as the designer is required to be supremely powerful‚ the designer must be God. Aquinas also presented an argument
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a cosmic chain of movement‚ whilst remaining unmoved‚ thereby making him an essential cog in the dynamics of the physical world. The Prime Mover has always existed in his eternal state of perfection and excellence to which that everything in the universe is drawn to the Prime Mover like a magnet. Everything is attracted to this perfection‚ even though the Prime Mover is detached from the physical mortal world of humans. The Prime Mover has no plan or dependency for anyone or any thing.The Prime Mover
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Examine the main strengths of the cosmological argument for the existence of God (21 marks) The main question the cosmological argument ponders thought on is ‘Why is there a universe at all?’ The cosmological argument asks the scientific question behind the universe as the design argument asks an emotional one. One of the main strengths of the cosmological argument was brought forward again recently by William Lane Craig. The argument tries to say that the world couldn’t have just occurred‚ there
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first philosophers to construct naturalistic accounts of the universe as a single‚ unified‚ self-ordering system that did not require the intervention of deities‚ or anything else outside the natural world‚ to call it into existence. The three philosophers associated with this tradition are Thales‚ Anaximander‚ and Anaximenes. All three have a similar conception of the universe‚ at least in the sense that each of them believes that the universe is made of a particular fundamental material‚ and after a
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questioned. According to Christian traditions God created the whole universe and caused everything to exist and he will always be the sole person responsible for everything that will ever exist in the Universe. This has created the Creationists belief that matter‚ forms of life‚ and the world were created by God out of nothing. Biblical creationists believe that the story told in Genesis of God’s six-day creation of the universe and all living things is literally correct. Firstly‚ Genesis 1‚ God
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found in his book Summa Theologica. He takes the universe as his starting point‚ because he knows for definite‚ that exists. However‚ he also says the universe is the end of his chain. Aquinas describes this chain as a ‘domino effect’ because once a causer causes something to happen; this then causes something else to happen‚ and so on. The causer here is God‚ and he is the Uncaused Cause‚ because God has always existed. Aquinas argued that the universe was created by a series of causes and effects
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What is Physics? Physics is a field of science that shows the interaction between matter and energy. It shows physical processes that help us understand better how our universe behaves. Physics also use scientific method that formulates and tests hypothesis which are based on observations and comprehensions. What are the different fields under Physics? PHYSICS PHYSICS dealing with physical processes and their relations in the science of physical chemistry. dealing
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