of the Design Argument [21 marks] The design argument is also referred to at the Teleological Argument stemmed from the Greek work ‘Telos’ meaning end or purpose. It is an ‘A posterior’ argument (from experience) based on our empirical senses and it is synthetic meaning that it is from observation. The argument is also inductive meaning there a number of possible conclusions. The main basis of the Teleological argument is based on a designer commonly known as ‘the classical God of theism’ (hereafter
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whether the ontological argument demonstrates the existence of God. (30 marks) The ontological argument was first formulated by St. Anselm in the 11th century. It argues the existence of God from a deductive and a priori stance. God is a being than which none greater can be conceived. This is the response given by St Anselm to the fool in the psalm who believed there was no God. St Anselm the Archbishop of Canterbury and of the Benedictine Order explained that for God to exist in the mind he would
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to one of the Thomas Hardy’s autobiography‚ he presents a picture of himself as a sensitive young man who attended church regularly and believed in a personal God who ruled the universe. Then when Hardy went to London in his early twenties and discovered such intellectual ferment as caused by Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species by Means and Natural Selection” (1859)‚ Hardy then lost his faith and never recovered it. Hardy then began to see the world without any ruler or God. He started to
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Sarah Robledo Elizabeth Ferguson ENG 121-133 3 December 2014 The Existence of Bigfoot George Bernard Shaw once said‚ “All great truths begin as blasphemies.” One might associate this when it comes to the “myth” regarding Bigfoot. Bigfoot‚ also known as a Sasquatch or Yeti‚ is described to be a Bi-pedal Humanoid. According to the North America Bigfoot Search website‚ the species ranges from seven to nine feet tall‚ 600-800 pounds‚ and can run up to a speed of thirty-five miles per hour. Its strength
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Man created God God is a social construct created by man. In a sense‚ man created his own personal god. In the early human civilization‚ man‚ to explain the things that to them are unexplainable created the concept of God. It started during the early days of human civilization‚ were people organized themselves as groups and lived their daily lives with activities that will enable them to survive this world like hunting‚ gathering‚ etc. Then they realized their own limitations as human being
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TITLE: Western Concepts of God DISCUSSANT/s: Lopez‚ Abby Domingo‚ Jetter Alexis Barreda‚ Maria Claudette Obias‚ Stephanie Tiamzon‚ Carlo Listana‚ Christian Dave Jacobo‚ Michelle Samson‚ Brixton WESTERN CONCEPTS OF GOD Western concepts of God have ranged from the detached transcendent demiurge of Aristotle to the pantheism of Spinoza. Nevertheless‚ much of western thought about God has fallen within some broad form of theism. Theism is the view that there is a God which is is the creator and
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(Design/creation) argument Teleological arguments are arguments from the order in the universe to the existence of God. The name “the teleological argument” is derived from the Greek word telos‚ meaning end or purpose. The most plausible suggestion is that the universe is so because it was created by an intelligent being in order to accomplish that purpose‚ than it is so to suppose that it is this way by chance. William Paley made the most cited statement of the argument‚ and he linked the
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to prove the existence of god through Aquinas’ Five Ways‚ the best argument I would choose would be the fourth way. Descartes’ argument in Meditations V‚ the Ontological Argument‚ he argues that: (1) The essence of God is to be a perfect being. (That is‚ I cannot conceive of God as not being a perfect being.) (2) Existence is a perfection. (3) Therefore‚ God exists. (Or I cannot conceive of God as not existing.) This argument goes hand in hand with Aquinas’ fourth way‚ the Argument from Degrees
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of God What I learned about the Doctrine of God is God’s existence‚ first of all. God existence is definitely taken for granted in the Bible. The writers of the Old and New Testament knew God existed so they thought it pointless to put it in there. Jacobi said‚ “A God capable of proof is no God at all.” So if God had to prove He existed‚ then that would take all of the power out of God Being God. So‚ in the Bible God existing is an understood matter. The arguments for the existence of God
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God in Nature Cynthia Wiley Ohio Christian University PH3000 – Transformed Worldview Jerome Van Kuiken 12/21/10 Looking at two different definitions of the word nature‚ I gained a better understanding of what the phrase‚ “God in Nature”‚ means. The first said that it was‚ “the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized” (www.wordnetweb.princeton.edu)‚ and the other described it as‚ “The material world and its phenomena” (www.answers.com)
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