Essay on Responding to H. J. McCloskey’s On Being an Atheist by Reed Harvey Philosophy and Contemporary Ideas Instructor: C. Wayne Mayhall Due – August 17‚ 2012 Liberty University This paper seeks to clarify whether the claims and proofs presented by McCloskey’s article “On Being an Atheist” provide sufficient ammunition to dissuade people from maintaining their belief in God. It was McCloskey’s intent to systematically discredit God and show that life without God is a better
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Philosopher and atheist‚ H.J. McCloskey published an article titled “On Being an Atheist” in 1968. In this article he offers arguments and what he refers to as “proofs” that a theists’ beliefs in an omnipotent‚ omniscient God should be disregarded. McCloskey bases his article on the Cosmological argument‚ the Teleological argument‚ on the problem of evil and ends his writing discussing why he claims that being an atheist offers more comfort than a theist has from a belief in God. This response will argue
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God and the Atheist In the first chapter of this book‚ the author‚ Paul Ferguson decided to introduced this book by describing person experience with having to explain whether there is a God or not. He was able to say that not only did he have a hard time with his first argument‚ but also that he was able to learn from it. That particular argument made him realize how important it was to “be prepared to give an answer to anyone who asks you to give a reason for the hope that you have” (1 Peter
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Becoming Atheist One day I woke up and decided that I wanted to be free of judgment and free of fear. Fear that I wasn’t living right‚ I wanted to be in control of my own life. I grew up not in a religious household but we all had that fear of God. I felt so comfortable not having a fear in going to Hell or trying to get into Heaven‚ not feeling akward when my girlfriend gives me a look for eating without saying
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same for Scientology. Therefore‚ it would only make sense for George Clooney and Angelina Jolies disbeliefs to have the same affect as other celebrities’ belief. Keeping this in mind‚ there is only one conclusion I can come to that; celebrity atheists will make the death of God a reality. This may be because society idolizes celebrities‚ the media‚ and seeking truth through
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Microeconomics In the online New York Times article “The Problem With Too Many Millionaires” Chrystia Freeland addresses that the group of wealthy individuals are getting richer throughout time. This “the winner takes it all” phenomena that has been occurring over the past few decades‚ may put even more stress on the middle class in the upcoming years. The article states that‚ “the rich are getting richer” as the World Wealth report explains there has been a rise of ten percent over the previous
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“One and Done: New antibiotic could provide single-dose option” This article I found particularly fascinating to read. Currently the treatment for the MRSA infection is approx. 10 days of antibiotic infusions twice a day. A study that has been completed by Duke Medicine researchers claims that they currently have a single-dose antibiotic named Oritavancin that is just as effective as other treatments. Dr. G. Ralph Corey is the lead author of this particular study. He conducted 2 clinical trials
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court after two previous judges ruled in favor of the parent’s decision and not the hospital. The hospital asked the judge to appoint a medical guardian for the girl after the parents stopped treatment. Lawyer and former nurse Maria Schimer is being appointed this child’s medical guardian. I do not agree with the parent’s decision to take this child off of chemotherapy. However‚ this is their choice not the doctors‚ hospitals‚ or the governments. This should be a decision made only by this
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Student Name(s) LN‚ FN MI | 1. Balauan‚ Raymart | | 2. Dejaresco‚ John Carlo | | 3. Lim‚ Jean | | 4. Maderal‚ Krizette Pearl | Group Number | | Problem 1: Strings Write a program and create the corresponding flowchart that will ask the user for the initials of the user’s first and last names and then output a greeting that says “Hello”‚ followed by the user’s initials and an exclamation mark. For example‚ if the user’s initials are J and D‚ then the output greeting would be:
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ARTICLE RESPONSE 1 Article Response to Condry and Condry (1976) Julia Sneed Condry and Condry (1976) set out to discover whether or not gender labels determined how an infant’s actions were perceived due to socially mediated gender roles. Previous researchers have found that if adults expected a child to behave a certain way‚ their actions could bring forth the very behavior they expected. This lead them to believe that this type of conditioning could be responsible for differ
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