(A) Explain how Descartes developed Anselm’s argument that God’s existence is necessary. Anselm used the Ontological Argument to prove that God’s existence is necessary. The origins of this argument are found in Anselm’s writings‚ he began with a quotation from a Psalm “The fool says in his heart‚ ‘there is no God’…” and then reflected on the truthfulness of this. Anselm defined God as ‘that than which nothing greater can be conceived’ assuming you accept this a priori definition Anselm went on
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in which the design argument provides evidence for the existence of God The design argument is an explanation used by theists to prove the existence of God. It is also called the teleological argument. The word teleological comes from the Greek word teleos which means ‘end’ or ‘purpose’. The argument uses observation of the natural world to provide evidence of design and uses this evidence to back up the existence of God as what has been designed needs a designer. As the argument uses evidence to confirm
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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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rid of the penny because they’re worthless. Removing the penny won’t hurt charities‚ American History will not be forgotten and making pennies is a waste of time. You can’t use pennies for a lot of things nowadays. The whole point of having the penny is to spend it‚ however‚ the penny itself can’t be spent. Pennies cost more then what they are worth. Yearly it costs the government 134 million dollars to produce 80 million dollars worth of pennies. The U.S had a half penny and when we
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2014 Atkins A Penny for Thought The great debate of the penny is an intriguing and quite controversial one. While some may feel the penny is worthless and not needed‚ others argue passionately that the penny is worthy of great praise and deserves to be kept around. It is not only a great American tradition with great sentiment but it is also functional and extremely convenient. Along with unequivocal opinions‚ statistics are also available to prove how practical and favorable pennies really are.
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the production of pennies‚ because the pennies have become useless in this economy today‚ makers of pennies could be doing more useful jobs‚ and the bill would simply decrease the use of the penny. The time has come to abolish the outdated‚ almost worthless‚ bothersome and wasteful penny. We always have those couple pesky pennies that’s we have to deal with day by day because we can’t get rid of them. Now a day you can’t buy anything with a penny or even a handful of pennies like you use to be
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DESIGN BUILD PROJECT SCOPE PROJECT INTRODUCTION Background Penny Store is a franchise of convenience stores which will be opening their new store in Kitchener‚ Ontario. Penny Store will be the first 24-hour convenience store that is more like an big dispensing machine than the traditional store. The store is to be built in space of 3200 sq. feet. The store expects to capture market
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Penny in the Dust In the short story “Penny in the Dust” by Ernest Bucker‚ we see a father-son relationship. Three points that I will be discussing are: Pete and his qualities‚ the conflict‚ and the relationship Pete and his father have. In this story we see a weak father and son relationship in the starting‚ which becomes better and stronger. First of all‚ Pete is a 7-year old boy who learns how much his father loves him. Pete is softhearted boy who loves his father more than a 7-year old
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J.C. Penny Company Strengths Market penetration J.C. Penny is currently operating in all 50 US States. This is the first step to capitalizing off of share in the retail market. (JCP Online‚ 2013) Essentially no matter where you are in the U.S. you can shop at a J.C. Penny’s. The sales impact of offering a great product mix will be enhanced by this kind of market penetration. Publicly traded The benefit of being a publicly traded company is that it can give investors more confidence when looking
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In the short story Penny in the Dust by Ernest Buckler‚ the author uses the method of presenting Peter’s view on this father and his father’s view on him by contrasting and comparing. By doing so‚ it shows that miscommunication will cause problems between people unless they open up to each other. Peter is portrayed as an imaginative child but at the same time has a very mature view on things especially towards his father. Being a child‚ he looks up to his father and respects and tries to understand
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