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.Arguments for and against the existence of God have been proposed by philosophers, theologians, scientists, and others.^ Arguments against God's existence have been given by philosophers, atheists, and agnostics.
  • http://mb-soft.com/believe/text/argument.htm 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Arguments about the Existence of God .

 ^ It seems to me that arguments for the existence of god are of this nature.
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 .In philosophical terminology, "existence-of-God" arguments concern schools of thought on the epistemology of the ontology of God.^ Next » 36 Arguments for the Existence of God .
  • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Arguments against God's existence have been given by philosophers, atheists, and agnostics.
  • http://mb-soft.com/believe/text/argument.htm 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This was an empirical argument for the existence of god.
  • Can science be used to prove the existence of God? | Science | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]
.The debate concerning the existence of God raises many philosophical issues.^ Anslem, the medieval philosopher, was the first to propound the ontological argument to prove the existence of God.

 ^ There are many scientists who affirm evidence for God’s existence through science.

 ^ This in turn raises serious doubts as to the adequacy of rationality's scope for answering the question of God's existence.
  • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

 .A basic problem is that there is no universally accepted definition of God or existence.^ When there is a change in the creature there is no change in God.
  • The Nature of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ovrlnd.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Olympus and there were no gods there.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
  • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It’s still not proof there is no God.
  • There He Goes Again at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.thebigquestions.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Some definitions of God's existence are so non-specific that it is certain that something exists that meets the definition; in stark contrast, there are suggestions that other definitions are self-contradictory.^ Scientific proof of god's non-existence .
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But it is plain that Dragons do not exist is not self-contradictory.
  • Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Is there good evidence for Gods existence?
  • http://www.easycart.net/AlwaysBeReady/1_DVDs.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.easycart.net [Source type: General]

 .A wide variety of arguments exist which can be categorized as metaphysical, logical, empirical, or subjective.^ ARGUMENT FROM HIDDEN LOGIC (II) (1) Atheists say that God doesn't exist.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Briefly, of the empirical argument it can be said that it proves nothing either in favor of or against the existence of God, that it does no more than suggest the possibility of a God existing.

 ^ That question is: why do design arguments remain so durable if empirical evidence is inferentially ambiguous, the arguments logically controversial, and the conclusions vociferously disputed?
  • Teleological Arguments for God's Existence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]

 .Although rarely studied scientifically the question of the existence of God is subject to lively debate both in philosophy[1] — the philosophy of religion being almost entirely devoted to the question — and in popular culture.^ Certainly the question of God's existence is the most important question of human philosophy.
  • http://mb-soft.com/believe/text/argument.htm 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Scientific proof of god's non-existence .
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Providing scientific evidence for the existence of God.
  • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]

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Philosophical issues

Definition of God's existence

Main articles: God and Deity
See also: Ontology
.Today in the West, the term "God" typically refers to a monotheistic concept of a supreme being that is unlike any other being.^ Its nonsense to say that and is just making a huge assumption because of this idea that being supremely perfect must mean God exists.
  • is the existence of god real? [Archive] - weebls-stuff forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forum.weebls-stuff.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Therefore things could not have been brought into being by God in any other manner, etc.
  • ethica1 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.mtsu.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ According to Dictionary.com, the term God is “The one supreme being, the creator and ruler of the universe.” Further, god is defined as one of several deities, esp.

 .Classical theism asserts that God possesses every possible perfection, including such qualities as omniscience, omnipotence, and perfect benevolence.^ Also, this universe cannot be perfect, if the god is omnipotent.
  • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ He is possessed of perfect and eternal qualities such as truth, knowledge and happiness.

 ^ But what are we to make of God's perfection and omniscience?
  • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Other philosophical approaches take a logically simple definition of God such as "the prime mover" or "the uncaused cause",[2] or "the ultimate creator"[3] or "a being than which nothing greater can be conceived"[4] from which the classical properties may be deduced.^ God is by definition that than which nothing greater can be conceived.
  • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

 ^ TRANSCENDENTAL ARGUMENT (III) (1) God is, by definition, a being greater than which nothing can be conceived or imagined.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In Anselm's words, "a being than which nothing greater can be conceived".
  • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

 [5] .By contrast, Pantheists do not believe in a personal god.^ If you do not believe in a God with a personality, you do not believe in God.
  • The Problem with the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God - Debate and Discourse - Penny Arcade Forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forums.penny-arcade.com [Source type: Original source]
  • The Problem with the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God - Debate and Discourse - Penny Arcade Forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forums.penny-arcade.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Like many scholastic philosophers, Aquinas believed that God is perfectly simple and that created beings, in contrast, have a composite character that accounts for their finitude and imperfection.
  • Descartes' Ontological Argument (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In my experience each person who believes in “God” believes in something unique that they are completely incapable of defining in any satisfactory manner.
  • There He Goes Again at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.thebigquestions.com [Source type: Original source]

 .For example, Spinoza and his philosophical followers use the term 'God' in a particular philosophical sense, to mean (roughly) the essential substance/principles of nature.^ Can man comprehend the essential nature of God?
  • The Spirits' Book by Allan kardec - Book I 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.spiritwritings.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If such a reason or cause should be given, it must either be drawn from the very nature of God, or be external to him--that is, drawn from another substance of another nature.
  • ethica1 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.mtsu.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But here the term theism is used to indicate not the faith in God but a particular theory concerning the relation between God and the world.

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.In monotheisms outside the Abrahamic traditions, the existence of God is discussed in similar terms.^ God stands outside existence.
  • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In first part he discusses the existence of God.
  • Of Hell and Eternal Damination: A look into the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.soc.hawaii.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Although, as discussed above, he sometimes presents formal versions of the ontological arguments as heuristic devices, Descartes thought that God's existence is ultimately known through intuition.
  • Descartes' Ontological Argument (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]

 .In the Advaita Vedanta school of Hinduism, reality is ultimately seen as a single, qualityless, changeless being called nirguna Brahman.^ Eternity is an essential, changeless state of being that transcends moment-by-successive-moment reality.
  • The Nature of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ovrlnd.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The argument above is formulated in what is no longer ‘ultimate reality’ but ‘fallen reality’ and the ‘reasoning’ being used is fallen reasoning.
  • An argument for the non-existence of God that’s giving me persistent trouble these days. - 22 Words 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC twentytwowords.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ God generally refers to one supreme, holy, personal Being, the divine unity of ultimate reality and of ultimate goodness.
  • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

 .Advaitin philosophy introduces the concept of saguna Brahman or Ishvara as a way of talking about Brahman to people.^ Any other type of deity, well then we're just talking about Spinozean concepts of nature and monism.
  • The Problem with the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God - Debate and Discourse - Penny Arcade Forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forums.penny-arcade.com [Source type: Original source]
  • The Problem with the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God - Debate and Discourse - Penny Arcade Forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forums.penny-arcade.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ When we talk about Heisenberg though these concepts turn rather fuzzy!
  • Evan Cockshaw : Arguing for the Existence of God in the Age of Quantum Indeterminacy - Quodlibet Journal 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.quodlibet.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Lots of the detractors here pretend that I'm only talking about God as idea , even though I've tirelessly reiterated my larger conception.
  • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

 .Ishvara, in turn, is ascribed such qualities as omniscience, omnipotence, and benevolence.^ Since an omniscient god must be aware of evil, an omnipotent god could prevent evil, and a benevolent god would not tolerate evil, it should follow that there is no evil.
  • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The opacity of sin is not a quality of the light which it receives, but rather the quality of its own existence, such that it is turned away from the light and has reference only to itself.

 ^ Yet there is evil, from which I can conclude that there is no omniscient, omnipotent, and benevolent god.
  • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

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Epistemology

Main articles: Epistemology and Sociology of knowledge
Epistemology is the branch of philosophy which studies the nature, origin, and scope of knowledge. .One cannot say that one "knows" something — or that the something is true — just because one believes it.^ One is to say that since we don't know, we can just decide for ourselves which interpretation to believe.
  • Julian Baggini: Hume's targets are those who argue rationally for the existence of God or the reality of miracles | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Nor do people have to believe something for it to be true :) .
  • 4-1 odds on the existence of God - Boing Boing 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.boingboing.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ According to this distinction, one can say what something is (i.e.
  • Descartes' Ontological Argument (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]

 Knowledge is, from an epistemological standpoint, distinguished from belief by justification.
.Knowledge in the sense of "understanding of a fact or truth" can be divided into a posteriori knowledge, based on experience or deduction (see methodology), and a priori knowledge from introspection, axioms or self-evidence.^ The facts we may not be able to see or understand with our curent knowledge.
  • The existence of God and Jesus is a proven fact – as is Jersey being a Christian island » Comment » This Is Jersey 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.thisisjersey.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Based on this rather massive evidence of all history and all experience, I am tempted to think that the Universe appears to be consistent and logical.
  • http://mb-soft.com/believe/text/argument.htm 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We can and do come to a knowledge of universal truths, like "all humans are mortal," not by sense experience alone (for we can never sense all humans) but through abstracting the common universal essence or nature of humanity from the few specimens we do experience by our senses.
  • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Knowledge can also be described as a psychological state, since in a strict sense there can never be a posteriori knowledge proper (see relativism).^ But this can occur only because the language of the real numbers is inadequate even to describe the natural numbers: There is no way, using real-number language, to state what it means to be an integer.
  • There He Goes Again at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.thebigquestions.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Hell is a prison in the proper sense of a word because it is a prison in its effects, and those confined there are prisoners, even though there are no, doors, no bolts, no locks.
  • The Existence of God3 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC maritain.nd.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But since it escapes me in all the divisions of the bodies of nature, it clearly follows that I never came by the knowledge of it, through the canal of my senses and imagination.
  • The Existence of God by Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon - Full Text Free Book (Part 2/2) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Much of the disagreement about "proofs" of God's existence is due to different conceptions not only of the term "God" but also the terms "proof", "truth", and "knowledge". Religious belief from revelation or enlightenment (satori) can fall into either the first category, a posteriori knowledge, if rooted in deduction or personal revelation, or the second, a priori class of knowledge, if based on introspection.^ In first part he discusses the existence of God.
  • Of Hell and Eternal Damination: A look into the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.soc.hawaii.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ So why not about the existence of God?
  • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ ARGUMENT FROM RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY The difference in religions disproves God's existence.
  • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]
Different conclusions as to the existence of God often rest on different criteria for deciding what methods are appropriate for deciding if something is true or not; some examples include
  • whether logic counts as evidence concerning the quality of existence
  • whether subjective experience counts as evidence for objective reality
  • whether either logic or evidence can rule in or out the supernatural
  • whether an object of the mind is accepted for existence
  • whether a truthbearer can justify.

The problem of the supernatural

.One problem posed by the question of the existence of God is that traditional beliefs usually ascribe to God various supernatural powers.^ One without a belief in god is an atheist.
  • 4-1 odds on the existence of God - Boing Boing 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.boingboing.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We do have belief in the non-existence of the "god" offered up by the various religions.
  • Julian Baggini: Hume's targets are those who argue rationally for the existence of God or the reality of miracles | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The existence of God and his essence are one and the same.
  • ethica1 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.mtsu.edu [Source type: Original source]

 .Supernatural beings may be able to conceal and reveal themselves for their own purposes, as for example in the tale of Baucis and Philemon.^ Another human being may be thought to be the one who imposes morality on me—my parents, for example.
  • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The true power of love experienced by your friend is not implanted in or imposed on her by an external, supernatural being for its own reasons; it is natural, and is found within her.
  • Human Love As Proof Of God's Existence? Bayard Stringer (Forum) (7-00) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.positiveatheism.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In our own country, for example, the rain is the least dependable, for it rains by fits and starts, years of drought being followed by seasons of floods.

 .In addition, according to concepts of God, God is not part of the natural order, but the ultimate creator of nature and of the scientific laws.^ As far as God is concerned it is His nature to create.

 ^ Creation is God's nature.

 ^ If God is believed to be the first cause of creation it must also be accepted that He is distinct from His effect which He creates at some time according to His convenience.

 .Thus, in Aristotelian philosophy, God is viewed as part of the explanatory structure needed to support scientific conclusions, and any powers God possesses are, strictly speaking, of the natural order — that is, derived from God's place as originator of nature.^ What is scientifically accepted is the conclusion - no God needed -not the method.
  • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Belief in God is thus natural.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Thus, we find that we are like God, but we do not possess His nature.
  • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]
.Some religious apologists offer the supernatural nature of God as the explanation for the inability of empirical methods to decide the question of God's existence.^ This was an empirical argument for the existence of god.
  • Can science be used to prove the existence of God? | Science | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]

 ^ On the nature and existence of God.
  • History of the Ontological Argument for the existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.formalontology.it [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It seems to me that arguments for the existence of god are of this nature.
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 .In Karl Popper's philosophy of science, belief in a supernatural God is outside the natural domain of scientific investigation because all scientific hypotheses must be falsifiable in the natural world.^ But God, by His nature, must exist.
  • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ God is all-powerful because He is unique.
  • The Spirits' Book by Allan kardec - Book I 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.spiritwritings.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Again: Science is limited to the NATURAL world.
  • 4-1 odds on the existence of God - Boing Boing 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.boingboing.net [Source type: Original source]

 .The Non-overlapping Magisteria view proposed by Stephen Jay Gould also holds that the existence (or otherwise) of God is irrelevant to and beyond the domain of science.^ Or experiences of God's non-existence?
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Can science be used to prove the existence of God?
  • Can science be used to prove the existence of God? | Science | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]

 ^ Scientific proof of god's non-existence .
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]
.Logical positivists, such as Rudolf Carnap and A. J. Ayer viewed any talk of gods as literal nonsense.^ That is logical nonsense, as a god with potentiality cannot be a god.
  • is the existence of god real? [Archive] - weebls-stuff forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forum.weebls-stuff.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We've talked about this already, G. If we can't use logic when it comes to God, then we can't believe in the Trinity.
  • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Thus talk about God literally has no content at all.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

 .For the logical positivists and adherents of similar schools of thought, statements about religious or other transcendent experiences could not have a truth value, and were deemed to be without meaning, because metaphysical naturalism, the philosophical basis for logical positivism, automatically excludes the possibility of the supernatural.^ Very briefly, we tend to recognize phenomena such as self-consciousness, free will, objective morality and intrinsic value, purpose and meaning to live, real evils, religious experience, and a host of other phenomena to be basic to our everyday experience."
  • Recent Debate I had on God's Existence - FRDB 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.freeratio.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If therefore Thou wert but a lumpish, frail, and inanimate being, a mass without any virtue or power, a shadow of a being, Thy vain fantastic nature would busy their vanity, and be a proper object to entertain their mean and brutish thoughts.
  • The Existence of God by Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon - Full Text Free Book (Part 2/2) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You say about transcendence “Transcendent standards mean they come from an external entity and not from the circumstances in which they are applied.” This statement implies that if something is transcendent it does not arise from circumstance.
  • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

Nature of relevant proofs/arguments

.Since God (of the kind to which the proofs/arguments relate) is neither an entity in the universe nor a mathematical object, it is not obvious what kinds of arguments/proofs are relevant to God's existence.^ Scientific proof of god's non-existence .
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This was an empirical argument for the existence of god.
  • Can science be used to prove the existence of God? | Science | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]

 ^ ARGUMENT FROM MULTIPLICITY (IV) (1) There are hundreds of proofs of God's existence.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Even if the concept of scientific proof were not problematic, the fact that there is no conclusive scientific proof of the existence, or non-existence, of God[8] mainly demonstrates that the existence of God is not a normal scientific question.^ There is no evidence for God, as there is with Unicorns.
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Olympus and there were no gods there.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
  • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It seems that the existence of God cannot be demonstrated.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 .John Polkinghorne suggests that the nearest analogy to the existence of God in physics are the ideas of quantum mechanics which are seemingly paradoxical but make sense of a great deal of disparate data.^ The idea makes a lot of sense to me.
  • Of Hell and Eternal Damination: A look into the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.soc.hawaii.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The idea of God does not prove his existence.

 ^ For the sake of offering evidence for God’s existence and choosing the resurrection for this proposal we must agree on some events as historical and a minimal foundation upon which to make a determination.
  • Proof of a god @ terrbear.org 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC terrbear.org [Source type: Original source]

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.Alvin Plantinga compares the question of the existence of God to the question of the existence of other minds, claiming both are notoriously impossible to "prove" against a determined skeptic.^ So we are both using math, not science to prove the existence of God.
  • Scientific Evidence of the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC hubpages.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Does the existence of love "prove" God?
  • Human Love As Proof Of God's Existence? Bayard Stringer (Forum) (7-00) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.positiveatheism.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ So does this prove the existence of God?
  • Scientific Evidence of the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC hubpages.com [Source type: Original source]

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.One approach, suggested by writers such as Stephen D. Unwin, is to treat (particular versions of) theism and naturalism as though they were two hypotheses in the Bayesian sense, to list certain data (or alleged data), about the world, and to suggest that the likelihoods of these data are significantly higher under one hypothesis than the other[11] Most of the arguments for, or against, the existence of God can be seen as pointing to particular aspects of the universe in this way.^ But there is in fact an argument for God's existence constructed from the data of such experiences.
  • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ When one is in such a relationship with God, doubt of His existence is absurd.
  • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Next » 36 Arguments for the Existence of God .
  • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 .In almost all cases it is not seriously suggested by proponents of the arguments that they are irrefutable, merely that they make one worldview seem significantly more likely than the other.^ It is more a concession than an argument.
  • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ He merely must be able to refute any argument that they do.
  • There He Goes Again at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.thebigquestions.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Neither is more objective than the other.
  • There is a website that successfully argues for the existence of God.Here is the URL.Therefore, God exists. | MetaFilter 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 .However, since an assessment of the weight of evidence depends on the prior probability that is assigned to each worldview, arguments that a theist finds convincing may seem thin to an atheist and vice-versa.^ Evidence and argument lead to probabilities.
  • An argument for the non-existence of God that’s giving me persistent trouble these days. - 22 Words 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC twentytwowords.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ An atheist may refute the arguments of a theist.
  • There He Goes Again at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.thebigquestions.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Science began as an outgrowth of theology, and all scientists, whether atheists or theists … accept an essentially theological worldview.
  • Teleological Arguments for God's Existence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]

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Outside of western thought

.Existence in absolute truth is central to Vedanta epistemology.^ Human inability to know for certain does not undermine the existence of absolute truth.
  • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Note.Grasp the significance of the truth that we are absolutely dependent on God for our existence.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Traditionally sense perception based approach was put into question as possibly misleading due to preconceived or superimposed ideas.^ Possibly the greatest problem with this argument is the question of whether a person can choose to believe something is true based on such a proposition.
  • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

 .But though all object-cognition can be doubted, the existence of the doubter remains a fact even in nastika traditions of mayavada schools following Adi Shankara.^ For inasmuch as his essence excludes all imperfection, and involves absolute perfection, all cause for doubt concerning his existence is done away, and the utmost certainty on the question is given.
  • ethica1 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.mtsu.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ For this would require that facts about the existence of things and the occurrence of events at certain dates should be necessary consequences of facts which are all without any temporal reference whatever.
  • Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Jesus ended that era of miracles doing himself many miracles, and proving one more time the existence of God and the fact that we all are more than we think we are.
  • New Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.cosmicfingerprints.com [Source type: Original source]

 [13] .The five eternal principles to be discussed under ontology, beginning with God or Isvara, the Ultimate Reality, cannot be established by the means of logic alone, and often require superior proof.^ I’m assuming “ultimate reality” means God.
  • An argument for the non-existence of God that’s giving me persistent trouble these days. - 22 Words 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC twentytwowords.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Ontological arguments seek to establish the existence of God based on pure logic: the principles of reasoning require that God be part of ones ontology."
  • History of the Ontological Argument for the existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.formalontology.it [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Of the five having the Principle (as Anselm did) clearly and centrally in mind, four accept the Proof, and the fifth takes no stand.
  • History of the Ontological Argument for the existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.formalontology.it [Source type: Original source]

 [14] .In Vaisnavism Vishnu, or his intimate ontological form of Krishna, is equated to personal absolute God of the Western traditions.^ I am sure that the science will validate the existence of God using the physics and the math equations in such a form that everybody will agree.
  • New Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.cosmicfingerprints.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ In the Western philosophic tradition pantheism is to be found in the thought of Spinoza who believed that God is infinite, ever existent, independent, self-conscious and without personality.

 ^ Since disbelief is a form of belief, the degree of faith a person has that God does not exist is what determines how strong an atheist he or she is, or is not.
  • Some of the evidences of the existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC lofi.forum.physorg.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Aspects of Krishna as svayam bhagavan in original Absolute Truth, sat chit ananda, are understood originating from three essential attributes of Krishna's form, i.e., "eternal existence" or sat, related to the brahman aspect; "knowledge" or chit, to the paramatman; and "bliss" or ananda in Sanskrit, to bhagavan.^ It must, then, necessarily be admitted that the existence of substance as its essence is an eternal truth.
  • ethica1 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.mtsu.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ When people say that B 'originated from' A, they are liable to confuse at least three different kinds of connexion between A and B. It might be that A is a necessary but insufficient condition of the existence of B. It might be that A is a necessary and sufficient condition of the existence of B. Or it might be that B simply is A in a more complex and disguised form.
  • Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Human inability to know for certain does not undermine the existence of absolute truth.
  • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

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Arguments for the existence of God

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  • The cosmological argument argues that there was a "first cause", or "prime mover" who is identified as God.^ Admittedly this argument allows for there to be many uncreated first movers.
    • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

     ^ FIRST CAUSE ARGUMENT (VI) (1) If there was no God, there was no beginning to time.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It is to this unique first mover that the argument concludes.
    • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

     .It starts with a claim about the world, like its containing entities or motion.
  • The teleological argument argues that the universe's order and complexity are best explained by reference to a creator God.^ TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT (1) Check out the world/universe/giraffe.
    • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The Universe about-turns and starts contracting.
    • Evan Cockshaw : Arguing for the Existence of God in the Age of Quantum Indeterminacy - Quodlibet Journal 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.quodlibet.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT Check out the world/universe/giraffe.
    • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]

     It starts with a rather more complicated claim about the world, i.e. that it exhibits order and design. This argument has two versions: One based on the analogy of design and designer, the other arguing that goals can only occur in minds.
  • Arguments that a non-physical quality observed in the universe is of fundamental importance and not an epiphenomenon, such as Morality (Argument from morality), Beauty (Argument from beauty), Love (Argument from love), or religious experience (Argument from religious experience), are arguments for theism as against materialism.
  • The anthropic argument suggests that basic facts, such as our existence, are best explained by the existence of God.
  • The moral argument argues that the existence of objective morality depends on the existence of God.
  • The transcendental argument suggests that logic, science, ethics, and other things we take seriously do not make sense in the absence of God, and that atheistic arguments must ultimately refute themselves if pressed with rigorous consistency.
  • The will to believe doctrine was pragmatist philosopher William James' attempt to prove God by showing that the adoption of theism as a hypothesis "works" in a believer's life.^ This is because logical argument depends on being able to trace a series of causes and reactions to their conclusion.
    • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

     ^ ARGUMENT FROM SERIOUS ASSERTION God doesnt exist.
    • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ This proves to me that Muhammad must have been a messenger of God."
    • Scientific Evidence of the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC hubpages.com [Source type: Original source]

     .This doctrine depended heavily on James' pragmatic theory of truth where beliefs are proven by how they work when adopted rather than by proofs before they are believed (a form of the hypothetico-deductive method).
  • The Argument from Reason holds that if, as thoroughgoing naturalism entails, all of our thoughts are the effect of a physical cause, then we have no reason for assuming that they are also the consequent of a reasonable ground.^ Naturalism is the belief that all phenomena can be explained in terms of natural causes and laws.

     ^ The universe and all that is in it, due to its contingent (dependent) nature, is an effect.
    • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Here's how that argument works.
    • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

     Knowledge, however, is apprehended by reasoning from ground to consequent. Therefore, if naturalism were true, there would be no way of knowing it — or anything else not the direct result of a physical cause — and we could not even suppose it, except by a fluke.
  • Frank J. Tipler's Omega Point Theory holds that the universe is bound to ultimately end in a Big Crunch, which will create a gravitational singularity that can be exploited to obtain practically infinite computational capacity; Tipler equates this final singularity and its state of infinite information capacity to God.

Argument from fulfilled Bible prophecy

.Isaiah argues that only the God of the Bible can foretell specific future entities and events without fail when he accredits God saying, "Present your case," says the LORD. "Set forth your arguments, … tell us what the former things were, so that we may consider them and know their final outcome.^ What does the bible say about God?
  • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The conclusion of the argument is not that everything the Bible tells us about God and life with God is really so.
  • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "God only knows.
  • The Spirits' Book by Allan kardec - Book I 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.spiritwritings.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Or declare to us the things to come, tell us what the future holds, so we may know that you are gods.”[17] "The LORD says … I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.^ Ah, says, Dawkins, but there’s no role for God there either: .
  • There He Goes Again at Steven Landsburg | The Big Questions: Tackling the Problems of Philosophy with Ideas from Mathematics, Economics, and Physics 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.thebigquestions.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ For you it is not a thing, because it is not palpable; but for us it is a thing."
  • The Spirits' Book by Allan kardec - Book I 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.spiritwritings.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There is no evidence for God, as there is with Unicorns.
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 Who then is like me? … Let him declare and lay out before me what has happened since I established my ancient people, and what is yet to come — yes, let him foretell what will come.”[18]
.The Bible declares that “all scripture is inspired by God”[19] and He “does nothing without revealing his plan to his servants the prophets.” [20] The prophecies of Daniel (chapters 2, 7, 8, 9, and 11) and Revelation purport to tell a select history of the world and God’s plan for it from the 6th Century BC to the establishment of the “kingdom of God” after the end of the world.^ What does the bible say about God?
  • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.
  • ethica1 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.mtsu.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Nothing has its being without God.
  • Evan Cockshaw : Arguing for the Existence of God in the Age of Quantum Indeterminacy - Quodlibet Journal 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.quodlibet.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .If subsequent history fulfills every point of the prophecies up to the present then, as Isaiah states, "we may know that you are God," else not.^ Therefore, YOU know that God exists.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I could have you locked up, you know.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You cannot know the nature of God.

 .This does not say what kind of God could do this, but only that there would be a God.^ What does the bible say about God?
  • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Only God could have made them so complex.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Only God could do that.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

 .So the argument asks, "Have the prophecies been fulfilled?"^ BIBLICAL PROPHECIES ARGUMENT (1) Jesus clearly fulfilled all the prophecies of the Jews.
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ BIBLICAL PROPHECIES ARGUMENT Jesus clearly did not fulfill all the prophecies of the Jews.
  • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]

Arguments from historical events or personages

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  • Judaism asserts that God intervened in key specific moments in history, especially at the Exodus and the giving of the Ten Commandments in front of all the tribes of Israel, positing an argument from empirical evidence stemming from sheer number of witnesses, thus demonstrating His existence.
  • The argument from the Resurrection of Jesus.^ Next » 36 Arguments for the Existence of God .
    • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It seems that the existence of God cannot be demonstrated.
    • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ PEACOCK ARGUMENT FROM ORIGINALITY (1) I have written the following to demonstrate the existence of God.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

     .This asserts that there is sufficient historical evidence for Jesus's resurrection to support his claim to be the son of God and indicates, a fortiori, God's existence.^ What does it matter if Jesus is the son of God?
    • The existence of God and Jesus is a proven fact – as is Jersey being a Christian island » Comment » This Is Jersey 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.thisisjersey.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ There is no evidence for God, as there is with Unicorns.
    • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ You don't claim there is a god.
    • 4-1 odds on the existence of God - Boing Boing 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.boingboing.net [Source type: Original source]

     [21] This is one of several arguments known as the Christological argument.
  • Islam asserts that the revelation of the miraculous Quran vindicates its divine authorship, and thus the existence of a God.
  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as Mormonism, similarly asserts that the miraculous appearance of God, Jesus Christ and angels to Joseph Smith and others and subsequent finding and translation of the Book of Mormon establishes the existence of God.

Hindu arguments for the existence of God

.Hindus argue that one of the proofs of the existence of God is the law of karma.^ Scientific proof of god's non-existence .
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ For me, I have proof of the existence of God as well, in the bible.
  • Scientific Evidence of the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC hubpages.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The existence of God and his essence are one and the same.
  • ethica1 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.mtsu.edu [Source type: Original source]

 .In a commentary to Brahma Sutras (III, 2, 38, and 41)), a Vedantic text, Adi Sankara, an Indian philosopher who consolidated the doctrine of Advaita Vedanta, a sub-school of Vedanta, argues that the original karmic actions themselves cannot bring about the proper results at some future time; neither can super sensuous, non-intelligent qualities like adrsta — an unseen force being the metaphysical link between work and its result — by themselves mediate the appropriate, justly deserved pleasure and pain.^ For even those philosophers who are sceptical of the merits of the Argument itself must allow that it has inspired and stimulated some considerable work in philosophical logic, and that it still offers a pointed introduction to a number of peculiarly recalcitrant problems.
  • History of the Ontological Argument for the existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.formalontology.it [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The first argument involved questioning "the weakness and remoteness of the analogy between the products of human design and the works of nature, and the resulting vagueness of any conclusions that can be drawn from that analogy" (ref: 1).
  • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

 ^ He is outside of our understanding, outside of time and space, so we cannot bring ourselves to try and contain him within a text or doctrine successfully.
  • is the existence of god real? [Archive] - weebls-stuff forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forum.weebls-stuff.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The fruits, according to him, then, must be administered through the action of a conscious agent, namely, a supreme being (Ishvara).^ He must be the Supreme Being who holds within Himself the source of His own existence.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Therefore my good-will which I had not yesterday and which I have to-day is not a thing I bestow upon myself, but must come from Him who gave me both the will and the being.
  • The Existence of God by Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon - Full Text Free Book (Part 2/2) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Its nonsense to say that and is just making a huge assumption because of this idea that being supremely perfect must mean God exists.
  • is the existence of god real? [Archive] - weebls-stuff forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forum.weebls-stuff.com [Source type: Original source]

 [22]
.A human's karmic acts result in merits and demerits.^ Without the jiva there can be no award of actions in the form of merit or demerit and without there being the result of actions there is no reason why the soul should assume the form of jiva.

 .Since unconscious things generally do not move except when caused by an agent (for example, the ax moves only when swung by an agent), and since the law of karma is an unintelligent and unconscious law, Sankara argues there must be a conscious supreme Being who knows the merits and demerits which persons have earned by their actions, and who functions as an instrumental cause in helping individuals reap their appropriate fruits.^ "Who caused the uncausable being?"
  • http://mb-soft.com/believe/text/argument.htm 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Since there are moral laws, then there must be a moral law giver who transcends space and time.
  • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There can be self-consciousness only if there is consciousness of the non-self.

 [23] .Thus, God affects the person's environment, even to its atoms, and for those souls who reincarnate, produces the appropriate rebirth body, all in order that the person might have the karmically appropriate experiences.^ Who is it that has regulated the outward form by which all those bodies are to be stinted?
  • The Existence of God by Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/2) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "Religion certainly seems to be in direct opposition to intellectualism, but not all those who believe in a God are irrational and closed-minded."
  • I had an intellectual conversation about the existence of god with a bunch of 8 year olds... whilst playing Modern Warfare 2. : AskReddit 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reddit.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ So its the background of a person or his values of bad or good shaped by his society or physical environment and not a god thing.
  • Human Love As Proof Of God's Existence? Bayard Stringer (Forum) (7-00) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.positiveatheism.org [Source type: Original source]

 .[24] Thus, there must be a theistic administrator or supervisor for karma, i.e., God.^ We know that there is motion in the world; whatever is in motion is moved by another thing; this other thing also must be moved by something; to avoid an infinite regression, we must posit a "first mover," which is God.
  • http://mb-soft.com/believe/text/argument.htm 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Therefore there must exist a God: an Uncaused Being who does not have to receive existence like us—and like every other link in the chain of receivers.
  • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN If there is a designer, then God must exist.
  • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]
.The Nyaya school, one of six orthodox schools of Hindu philosophy, states that one of the proofs of the existence of God is karma; [25] It is seen that some people in this world are happy, some are in misery.^ Scientific proof of god's non-existence .
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The existence of God and his essence are one and the same.
  • ethica1 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.mtsu.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Such are the proofs for the existence of God.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 Some are rich and some poor. The Naiyanikas explain this by the concept of karma and reincarnation. .The fruit of an individual's actions does not always lie within the reach of the individual who is the agent; there ought to be, therefore, a dispenser of the fruits of actions, and this supreme dispenser is God.^ Therefore there must be a God.
  • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Therefore, there is a God.
  • There is a website that successfully argues for the existence of God.Here is the URL.Therefore, God exists. | MetaFilter 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This is the time when the latter is available to ALL souls as The Supreme Soul has been coming to earth to talk (by borrowing a corporeal form) since 1936, and always does every 1936.
  • Scientific Proof of the Existence of God : Amit Goswami, Ph.D. 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.amitgoswami.org [Source type: Original source]

 [26] This belief of Nyaya, accordingly, is the same as that of Vedanta.[27]

Inductive arguments

.Inductive arguments argue their conclusions through inductive reasoning.^ Swinburne, van Inwagen and others argue convincingly that one can find a conclusive argument for the coherence of any concept of any kind whatsoever.
  • History of the Ontological Argument for the existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.formalontology.it [Source type: Original source]

 ^ An argument may fail to prove its conclusion either through its premisses being doubtful or through its structure being logically defective.
  • Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Chapter 13 deals with the argument from religious experience and here Swinburne argues toward a somewhat different conclusion which will be used in an unexpected manner in chapter 14.
  • An Analysis of The Existence of God (2004) by Richard Swinburne 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC home.cogeco.ca [Source type: Original source]
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  • Another class of philosophers asserts that the proofs for the existence of God present a fairly large probability though not absolute certainty.^ Scientific proof of god's non-existence .
    • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ For me, I have proof of the existence of God as well, in the bible.
    • Scientific Evidence of the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC hubpages.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Such are the proofs for the existence of God.
    • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

     .A number of obscure points, they say, always remain; an act of faith is required to dismiss these difficulties.^ I'd like to point out that I was in no way telling these children that they should or shouldn't believe in god.
    • I had an intellectual conversation about the existence of god with a bunch of 8 year olds... whilst playing Modern Warfare 2. : AskReddit 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reddit.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ Many times of course, physicists will take the following point of view: they will say, “Well, yeah sure, experiments.
    • Scientific Proof of the Existence of God : Amit Goswami, Ph.D. 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.amitgoswami.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ These sects might only share nominal differences at best, but they are nonetheless different enough to easily distinguish between, say, Presbyterians and Baptists.
    • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

     .This view is maintained, among others, by the Scottish statesman Arthur Balfour in his book The Foundations of Belief (1895).^ Pattison's book The idea of God contains a fine exposition of the theistic position as well as balanced criticism of the view of other thinkers.

     The opinions set forth in this work were adopted in France by Ferdinand Brunetière, the editor of the Revue des deux Mondes. Many orthodox Protestants express themselves in the same manner, as, for instance, Dr. E. Dennert, President of the Kepler Society, in his work Ist Gott tot?.[28]

Arguments from testimony

.Arguments from testimony rely on the testimony or experience of certain witnesses, possibly embodying the propositions of a specific revealed religion.^ However, I will assume, for the purposes of this discussion, that certain objective evidence exists (my existence, the veracity of the five senses, the legitimacy of logic, the reliability of experience).
  • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Then the details of the belief are fixed for a certain place and period by the special peculiarities of the experiences had by the founder of a certain religion.
  • Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Or possibly it's bastardising the moral argument, or misrepresenting sonme argument from religious experience.
  • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 .Swinburne argues that it is a principle of rationality that one should accept testimony unless there are strong reasons for not doing so.^ Is there any reason to accept it?
  • Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And we can hence conclude by another process of reasoning--that there is but one such substance.
  • ethica1 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.mtsu.edu [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The practical postulate which we go upon everywhere else is to treat cognitive claims as veridical unless there be some positive reason to think them delusive.
  • Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]

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  • The witness argument gives credibility to personal witnesses, contemporary and throughout the ages. A variation of this is the argument from miracles which relies on testimony of supernatural events to establish the existence of God.
  • The majority argument argues that the theism of people throughout most of recorded history and in many different places provides prima facie demonstration of God's existence.

Arguments grounded in personal experience

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  • The Scottish School of Common Sense led by Thomas Reid taught that the fact of the existence of God is accepted by us without knowledge of reasons but simply by a natural impulse.^ Experience assures us emphatically that we do not have a direct sense knowledge of God's existence.
    • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It seems to me that arguments for the existence of god are of this nature.
    • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The existence of God is, in fact, deeply consequential.
    • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

     .That God exists, this school said, is one of the chief metaphysical principles that we accept not because they are evident in themselves or because they can be proved, but because common sense obliges us to accept them.
  • The Argument from a Proper Basis argues that belief in God is "properly basic"; that it is similar to statements like "I see a chair" or "I feel pain". Such beliefs are non-falsifiable and, thus, neither provable nor disprovable; they concern perceptual beliefs or indisputable mental states.
  • In Germany, the School of Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi taught that our reason is able to perceive the suprasensible.^ Which raises the possibility that God is one such belief.
    • Some of the evidences of the existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC lofi.forum.physorg.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ MODAL ONTOLOGICAL ARGUMENT (1) God exists.
    • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

     ^ One without a belief in god is an atheist.
    • 4-1 odds on the existence of God - Boing Boing 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.boingboing.net [Source type: Original source]

     Jacobi distinguished three faculties: sense, reason, and understanding. .Just as sense has immediate perception of the material so has reason immediate perception of the immaterial, while the understanding brings these perceptions to our consciousness and unites them to one another.^ And we can hence conclude by another process of reasoning--that there is but one such substance.
    • ethica1 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.mtsu.edu [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Let us suppose that several of these arguments, e.g., the Cosmological Argument, the Argument from Design, and the Argument from Religious Experience, turned out to be valid, in the sense that each of them established the existence of something which, in one sense or another of the word 'God', could be called 'God'.
    • Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ He is outside of our understanding, outside of time and space, so we cannot bring ourselves to try and contain him within a text or doctrine successfully.
    • is the existence of god real? [Archive] - weebls-stuff forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forum.weebls-stuff.com [Source type: Original source]

     [30] .God's existence, then, cannot be proven (Jacobi, like Immanuel Kant, rejected the absolute value of the principle of causality), it must be felt by the mind.
  • In Emile, Jean-Jacques Rousseau asserted that when our understanding ponders over the existence of God it encounters nothing but contradictions; the impulses of our hearts, however, are of more value than the understanding, and these proclaim clearly to us the truths of natural religion, namely, the existence of God and the immortality of the soul.
  • The same theory was advocated in Germany by Friedrich Schleiermacher, who assumed an inner religious sense by means of which we feel religious truths.^ The computer had more sense than atheists who made it.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It seems that the existence of God cannot be demonstrated.
    • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Anyone who has had a living encounter with the living God cannot but believe in him.
    • Can science be used to prove the existence of God? | Science | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]

     According to Schleiermacher, religion consists solely in this inner perception, and dogmatic doctrines are inessential.[31]
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  • Many modern Protestant theologians follow in Schleiermacher's footsteps, and teach that the existence of God cannot be demonstrated; certainty as to this truth is only furnished us by inner experience, feeling, and perception.
  • Modernist Christianity also denies the demonstrability of the existence of God.^ It seems that the existence of God cannot be demonstrated.
    • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ PEACOCK ARGUMENT FROM ORIGINALITY (1) I have written the following to demonstrate the existence of God.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Therefore we cannot demonstrate that God exists.
    • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

     .According to them we can only know something of God by means of the vital immanence, that is, under favorable circumstances the need of the divine dormant in our subconsciousness becomes conscious and arouses that religious feeling or experience in which God reveals himself to us.^ And then strengthened by our intrinsic need to be worth something, to know what this struggle is "for".
    • 4-1 odds on the existence of God - Boing Boing 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.boingboing.net [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Reply: Our minds are the only means by which we can know reality.
    • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ God with man, since it is natural for man to make something only if' he has need of it.

     In condemnation of this view the oath against modernism formulated by Pius X says: "Deum ... naturali rationis lumine per ea quae facta sunt, hoc est per visibilia creationis opera, tanquam causam per effectus certo cognosci adeoque demostrari etiam posse, profiteor." ("I declare that by the natural light of reason, God can be certainly known and therefore his existence demonstrated through the things that are made, i.e., through the visible works of creation, as the cause is known through its effects.")
  • Pascal's Wager (or Pascal's Gambit) is a suggestion posed by the French philosopher Blaise Pascal that even though the existence of God cannot be determined through reason, a person should "wager" as though God exists, because so living has everything to gain, and nothing to lose.

Arguments against the existence of God

.Each of the following arguments aims at showing either that a particular subset of gods do not exist (by showing them as inherently meaningless, contradictory, or at odds with known scientific or historical facts) or that there is insufficient reason to believe in them.^ But I believe there are gods.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ As for me, I choose to believe in God and begin reasoning from there.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There are plenty of reasons to believe the infinite personal God of the Bible exists.
  • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

Empirical arguments

.Empirical arguments depend on empirical data in order to prove their conclusions.^ This is because logical argument depends on being able to trace a series of causes and reactions to their conclusion.
  • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Briefly, of the empirical argument it can be said that it proves nothing either in favor of or against the existence of God, that it does no more than suggest the possibility of a God existing.

 ^ That question is: why do design arguments remain so durable if empirical evidence is inferentially ambiguous, the arguments logically controversial, and the conclusions vociferously disputed?
  • Teleological Arguments for God's Existence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]
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  • The argument from inconsistent revelations contests the existence of the deity called God as described in scriptures — such as the Jewish Tanakh, the Christian Bible, or the Muslim Qur'an — by identifying apparent contradictions between different scriptures, within a single scripture, or between scripture and known facts.^ But there is in fact an argument for God's existence constructed from the data of such experiences.
    • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Next » 36 Arguments for the Existence of God .
    • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

     ^ ARGUMENT FROM REVELATION (1) God told me that he exists.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

     .To be effective this argument requires the other side to hold that its scriptural record is inerrant, or at least to assert that a proper understanding of scripture gives rise to knowledge of God's existence.
  • The problem of evil contests the existence of a god who is both omnipotent and omnibenevolent by arguing that such a god should not permit the existence of evil or suffering.^ Next » 36 Arguments for the Existence of God .
    • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

     ^ For it seems as if both God's knowledge and His will may be something other than what it is.
    • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ We understand from scripture that God HATES sin..
    • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]

     The theist responses are called theodicies.
  • The destiny of the unevangelized, by which persons who have never even heard of a particular revelation might be harshly punished for not following its dictates.
  • The argument from poor design contests the idea that God created life on the basis that life-forms, including humans, seem to exhibit poor design.
  • The argument from nonbelief contests the existence of an omnipotent God who wants humans to believe in him by arguing that such a god would do a better job of gathering believers.
  • The argument from parsimony (using Occam's Razor) contends that since natural (non-supernatural) theories adequately explain the development of religion and belief in gods,[32] the actual existence of such supernatural agents is superfluous and may be dismissed unless otherwise proven to be required to explain the phenomenon.
  • The analogy of Russell's teapot argues that the burden of proof for the existence of God lies with the theist rather than the atheist.

Deductive arguments

.Deductive arguments attempt to prove their conclusions by deductive reasoning from true premises.^ A deductive argument is an argument where if the premises are factually true then the conclusion is guaranteed (or certain).
  • Evidence for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC sguthrie.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ An argument is said to be invalid when the structure of the deductive argument yields true premises and a false conclusion.
  • Evidence for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC sguthrie.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Although the contents of the argument are uncompromisingly important, we need to see how the relationship between the premise(s) and the conclusion operate.
  • Evidence for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC sguthrie.net [Source type: Original source]
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  • The Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit is a counter-argument to the argument from design.^ The argument from design The special argument based on the existence of order or design in the universe (also called the teleological argument) proves immediately the existence of a supramundane mind of vast intelligence, and ultimately the existence of God.
    • http://mb-soft.com/believe/text/argument.htm 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ On the other hand, whether or not some of Hume's own remarks are to the point depends upon whether or not design arguments really are ultimately analogical.
    • Teleological Arguments for God's Existence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]

     .The argument from design claims that a complex or ordered structure must be designed.^ ARGUMENT FROM DESIGN If there is a designer, then God must exist.
    • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Atoms must be able to assemble in the molecules in order to gain sufficient complexity for life chemistry to proceed.

     ^ ARGUMENT FROM UNINTELLIGENT WEB DESIGN (1) The AIG website is too complex to have arisen by chance.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

     .However, a god that is responsible for the creation of a universe would be at least as complicated as the universe that it creates.^ If it did, then God would not have had the option not to create it.
    • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ But then, God would not be its Creator, and thus, God would not be the Creator.
    • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ God deliberately created the universe.
    • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

     .Therefore, it too must require a designer.^ Therefore, cuteness must have been designed.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Related to that, taking design to be the best explanation for something requires prior identification of the appropriate properties as design-relevant, and that recognition must have a different basis.
    • Teleological Arguments for God's Existence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]

     .And its designer would require a designer also, ad infinitum.^ Design built into nature from the very beginning would require no further interventions within the historical flow of nature, no gaps in nature.
    • Teleological Arguments for God's Existence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The designing agent would itself demand explanation, requiring ultimately a sequence of prior analogous intelligences producing intelligences.
    • Teleological Arguments for God's Existence (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC plato.stanford.edu [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Sometimes they flow gently and regularly, sometimes they move with impetuosity, as occasion requires; and they vary ad infinitum the postures, gestures, and other actions of the body.
    • The Existence of God by Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/2) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]

     .The argument for the existence of god is then a logical fallacy with or without the use of special pleading.^ ARGUMENT FROM MEANING (1) Nothing has meaning without God.
    • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

     ^ This was an empirical argument for the existence of god.
    • Can science be used to prove the existence of God? | Science | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]

     ^ This being so, is proof of God's existence without rational argument unobtainable?
    • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

     .The Ultimate 747 gambit points out that God does not provide an origin of complexity, it simply assumes that complexity always existed.^ How does a Christian ultimately know that God exists?
    • Evidence for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC sguthrie.net [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Since evil does exist, God exists.
    • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Does god exist ?
    • The existence of God and Jesus is a proven fact – as is Jersey being a Christian island » Comment » This Is Jersey 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.thisisjersey.com [Source type: Original source]

     It also states that design fails to account for complexity, which natural selection can explain.
  • The omnipotence paradox suggests that the concept of an omnipotent entity is logically contradictory, from considering a question like: "Can God create a rock so big that he cannot lift it?" or "If God is all powerful, could God create a being more powerful than itself?".
  • Another argument suggests that there is a contradiction between God being omniscient and omnipotent, basically asking "how can an all-knowing being change its mind?" .See the article on omniscience for details.
  • The problem of hell is the idea that eternal damnation for actions committed in a finite existence contradicts God's omnibenevolence or omnipresence.
  • The argument from free will contests the existence of an omniscient god who has free will — or has allotted the same freedom to his creations — by arguing that the two properties are contradictory.^ Next » 36 Arguments for the Existence of God .
    • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Science just studies what God created and so the two do not contradict each other.
    • Scientific Evidence of the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC hubpages.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ This was an empirical argument for the existence of god.
    • Can science be used to prove the existence of God? | Science | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]

     .According to the argument, if God already knows the future, then humanity is destined to corroborate with his knowledge of the future and not have true free will to deviate from it.^ ARGUMENT FROM UNKNOWN QUALITIES (1) God has qualities we mere humans can't possibly know.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Helio, you already know one of my answers to your question (what if there was no God), but you didn't get round to answering the reverse when I asked you.
    • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

     ^ ARGUMENT FROM PERSONAL INCREDULITY (I) (1) If evolution is false, then creationism is true, and therefore God exists.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Therefore our free will contradicts an omniscient god.^ Free will - therefore God exists .
    • SpoonBlog » Blog Archive » Proofs for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC spoonbot.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ Therefore, God exists, and our prayer healers deserve to be paid like regular doctors.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Therefore, God exists and Jesus died for our sins.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

     .Another argument attacks the existence of an omniscient god who has free will directly in arguing that the will of God himself would be bound to follow whatever God foreknows himself doing in eternity future.
  • The Transcendental argument for the non-existence of God contests the existence of an intelligent creator by suggesting that such a being would make logic and morality contingent, which is incompatible with the presuppositionalist assertion that they are necessary, and contradicts the efficacy of science.^ Ranger, I would disagree that the “who designed God” argument is silly.
    • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ It is assumed that God is a necessary being so therefore had no creator.
    • is the existence of god real? [Archive] - weebls-stuff forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forum.weebls-stuff.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ But if God’s existence is possible – if we can conceive of a necessary being – he must exist.
    • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

     .A more general line of argument based on this argument seeks to generalize this argument to all necessary features of the universe and all god-concepts.^ God is therefore necessary for all being.
    • Evan Cockshaw : Arguing for the Existence of God in the Age of Quantum Indeterminacy - Quodlibet Journal 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.quodlibet.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

     ^ Among them may be mentioned, in particular, the Aesthetic Argument, based on the perception of beauty in the universe, the Ethical Argument, based on the voice of conscience, and the Moral Argument or the Argument from the universal belief of mankind.
    • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ To be more accurate about matters, we can say that religion exists as a universal sociological phenomenon, but we cannot say the same for any God(s).
    • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

     [33]
    • .
  • The counter-argument against the Cosmological argument ("chicken or the egg") takes its assumption that things cannot exist without creators and applies it to God, setting up an infinite regress.^ ARGUMENT FROM ASSUMPTION Therefore, God doesnt exist.
    • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ ARGUMENT FROM ASSHOLE (1) God exists, asshole.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ God exists - Very compelling argument.
    • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

     This attacks the premise that the universe is the second cause (after God, who is claimed to be the first cause).
  • Theological noncognitivism, as used in literature, usually seeks to disprove the god-concept by showing that it is unverifiable by scientific tests.

Inductive arguments

.Inductive arguments argue their conclusions through inductive reasoning.^ Swinburne, van Inwagen and others argue convincingly that one can find a conclusive argument for the coherence of any concept of any kind whatsoever.
  • History of the Ontological Argument for the existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.formalontology.it [Source type: Original source]

 ^ An argument may fail to prove its conclusion either through its premisses being doubtful or through its structure being logically defective.
  • Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ditext.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Chapter 13 deals with the argument from religious experience and here Swinburne argues toward a somewhat different conclusion which will be used in an unexpected manner in chapter 14.
  • An Analysis of The Existence of God (2004) by Richard Swinburne 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC home.cogeco.ca [Source type: Original source]
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  • The atheist-existentialist argument for the non-existence of a perfect sentient being states that if existence precedes essence, it follows from the meaning of the term sentient that a sentient being cannot be complete or perfect.^ ARGUMENT FROM PLAGERISM I have written the following to demonstrate the non-existence of God.
    • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The argument from universal consent The confirmatory argument based on the consent of mankind may be stated briefly as follows: mankind as a whole has at all times and everywhere believed and continues to believe in the existence of some superior being or beings on whom the material world and man himself are dependent, and this fact cannot be accounted for except by admitting that this belief is true or at least contains a germ of truth.
    • http://mb-soft.com/believe/text/argument.htm 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ As for the problems of atheistic morality, while being totally off point in terms of the argument above as a theistic argument – I don’t see this in straight forward terms.
    • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

     .It is touched upon by Jean-Paul Sartre in Being and Nothingness.^ As Sartre (Being and Nothingness, NY: Washington Square, 1966.
    • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Even the atheist Jean-Paul Sartre admitted that "there comes a time when one asks, even of Shakespeare, even of Beethoven, 'Is that all there is?'"
    • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

     .Sartre's phrasing is that God would be a pour-soi [a being-for-itself; a consciousness] who is also an en-soi [a being-in-itself; a thing]: which is a contradiction in terms.^ Ranger, I would disagree that the “who designed God” argument is silly.
    • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ The Being who possesses these perfections we call God.
    • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Thus, we know that God is the creator of all things in the universe, and of the universe itself.
    • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]

     .The argument is echoed thus in Salman Rushdie's novel Grimus: "That which is complete is also dead."
  • The "no reason" argument tries to show that an omnipotent and omniscient being would not have any reason to act in any way, specifically by creating the universe, because it would have no needs, wants, or desires since these very concepts are subjectively human.^ States that the Universe is the way it is because there is no other choice.
    • is the existence of god real? [Archive] - weebls-stuff forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forum.weebls-stuff.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ ARGUMENT FROM MATHEMATICIANS (1) We humans are living beings, and thus biological.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Since he is not human he is not subject to desire.

     .As the universe exists, there is a contradiction, and therefore, an omnipotent god cannot exist.^ Therefore, Comrade God exists.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Therefore, God exists .
    • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ ARGUMENT FROM CONTRADICTING YOURSELF Theres proof that God doesnt exist.
    • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]

     .This argument is espoused by Scott Adams in the book God's Debris.
  • The "historical induction" argument concludes that since most theistic religions throughout history (e.g.^ (Good book on Einstein's extensive discussions of religion and theology: Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology by Max Jammer -Ed ) God created the universe and God is intelligent.

     ^ Much atheist literature focuses on the concept that it is not possible to define God, or identify God, or predicate upon God, despite all efforts by theists throughout history.
    • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

     ^ I believe that if a God does exist, this god cannot be anything like what the religions of the world claim to think since all of them seem to have a different idea of what their god is and wants.
    • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

     .ancient Egyptian religion, ancient Greek religion) and their gods ultimately come to be regarded as untrue or incorrect, all theistic religions, including contemporary ones, are therefore most likely untrue/incorrect by induction.^ Therefore God, like, exists and stuff.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ With so many religions come so many gods, they can’t have all created the world.
    • The existence of God and Jesus is a proven fact – as is Jersey being a Christian island » Comment » This Is Jersey 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.thisisjersey.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Therefore, God is real, and likes beer.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

     It is implied as part of Stephen F. Roberts' popular quotation:
    “I contend that we are both atheists. .I just believe in one fewer god than you do.^ Albert Einstein believed in God, are you smarter than him?
    • New Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.cosmicfingerprints.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ You must believe in God.
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Are you higher than God?
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
    • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

     When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”

Subjective arguments

.Similar to the subjective arguments for the existence of God, subjective arguments against the supernatural mainly rely on the testimony or experience of witnesses, or the propositions of a revealed religion in general.^ Next » 36 Arguments for the Existence of God .
  • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I am against god, and against religion.
  • 4-1 odds on the existence of God - Boing Boing 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.boingboing.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ ARGUMENT FROM RELIGIOUS DIVERSITY The difference in religions disproves God's existence.
  • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]
  • The witness argument gives credibility to personal witnesses, contemporary and from the past, who disbelieve or strongly doubt the existence of God.
  • The conflicted religions argument notes that many religions give differing accounts as to what God is and what God wants; since all the contradictory accounts cannot be correct, many if not all religions must be incorrect.

Conclusions

.Conclusions on the existence of God can be divided along numerous axes, producing a variety of orthogonal classifications.^ For my part, I most certainly *could* be convinced of the existence of god--if only I was shown conclusive empirical evidence that is reproducible by others.
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The point of an argument for the existence of God is to show how someone could reach that conclusion.
  • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If a proof of Gods non-existence would be discovered it would probably have been provided by God to test the faith of his people or something along those lines.
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Theism and atheism relate to belief about the existence of gods, while gnosticism and agnosticism relates to belief about whether the existence of gods is (or can be) known.^ It's not about atheism or theism.
  • I had an intellectual conversation about the existence of god with a bunch of 8 year olds... whilst playing Modern Warfare 2. : AskReddit 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reddit.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ So why not about the existence of God?
  • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Arguments about the Existence of God .

 .Ignosticism concerns belief regarding God's conceptual coherence.^ For those who regard God as something beyond a more current and vastly more complicated unicorn, there are many avenues of belief available.
  • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

Theism

.The theistic conclusion is that the arguments indicate there is sufficient reason to believe that at least one god exists.^ But I believe there are gods.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ As for me, I choose to believe in God and begin reasoning from there.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ ARGUMENT FROM PERFECTION (1) If there are absolute moral standards, then God exists.
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

God exists and this can be demonstrated

.The Catechism of the Catholic Church, following the Thomist tradition and the dogmatic definition of the First Vatican Council, affirms that it is a doctrine of the Catholic Church that God's existence has been rationally demonstrated.^ It seems that the existence of God cannot be demonstrated.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ PEACOCK ARGUMENT FROM ORIGINALITY (1) I have written the following to demonstrate the existence of God.
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ ARGUMENT FROM PLAGERISM I have written the following to demonstrate the non-existence of God.
  • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]

 .For the proofs of God's existence by Saint Thomas Aquinas see Quinquae viae.^ Scientific proof of god's non-existence .
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ For me, I have proof of the existence of God as well, in the bible.
  • Scientific Evidence of the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC hubpages.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Such are the proofs for the existence of God.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Many other Christian denominations share the view that God's existence can be demonstrated without recourse to claims of revelation.^ It seems that the existence of God cannot be demonstrated.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Our Fenelon, claimed in brotherhood by Christians of every denomination, was born nearly eighty years after that time, at the chateau of Fenelon in Perigord, on the 6th of August, 1651.
  • The Existence of God by Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/2) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ So, in fact, many Christians are being killed just for their faith, possibly more than the people of other religions killed by the ‘claim to be Christians’ that Bambi mentions.
  • The existence of God and Jesus is a proven fact – as is Jersey being a Christian island » Comment » This Is Jersey 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.thisisjersey.com [Source type: Original source]
On beliefs of Christian faith, theologians and philosophers make a distinction between
  1. doctrines arising from special revelation that arise essentially from faith in divinely inspired revelations, including the life of Christ, but cannot be proved or even anticipated by reason alone, such as the doctrines of the Trinity or the Incarnation, and
  2. doctrines arising from general revelation, that is from reason alone drawing conclusions based on relatively obvious observations of the world and self.
.The argument that the existence of God can be known to all, even prior to exposure to any divine revelation, predates Christianity.^ The argument also assumes that God is the Christian God.
  • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Next » 36 Arguments for the Existence of God .
  • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 ^ ARGUMENT FROM REVELATION (1) God told me that he exists.
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 St. Paul made this argument when he insisted that pagans were without excuse because "since the creation of the world [God's] invisible nature, namely, his eternal power and deity, has been clearly perceived in the things that have been made".[34] In this Paul alludes to the proofs for a creator, later enunciated by St. Thomas[35] and others, but that had also been explored by the Greek philosophers.
Another apologetical school of thought, a sort of synthesis of various existing Dutch and American Reformed thinkers (such as, Abraham Kuyper, Benjamin Warfield, Herman Dooyeweerd), emerged in the late 1920s. .This school was instituted by Cornelius Van Til, and came to be popularly called Presuppositional apologetics (though Van Til himself felt "transcendental" would be a more accurate title).^ Perhaps a more accurate example would be that of flow of electrical current or fluid pressure and flow through a pipe.
  • Evan Cockshaw : Arguing for the Existence of God in the Age of Quantum Indeterminacy - Quodlibet Journal 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.quodlibet.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ I would like this kind of discussion to take place more often and in schools and even churches.
  • The existence of God and Jesus is a proven fact – as is Jersey being a Christian island » Comment » This Is Jersey 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.thisisjersey.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Now why would I give you something called “New Scientific Evidence” if it’s more than 15 years old?
  • New Scientific Evidence for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.cosmicfingerprints.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The main distinction between this approach and the more classical evidentialist approach mentioned above is that the presuppositionalist denies any common ground between the believer and the non-believer, except that which the non-believer denies, namely, the assumption of the truth of the theistic worldview.^ In other words the distinction between the finite and the infinite must be abolished and the principle of contradiction denied.
  • http://mb-soft.com/believe/text/argument.htm 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Secondly, there is biblical precedent set before us of those who have reasoned with non-believers about the truth of Christianity.
  • Evidence for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC sguthrie.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ For nominalists do not believe in the existence of any universals—except one (that all universals are only names).
  • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

 .In other words, presuppositionalists don't believe that the existence of God can be proven by appeal to raw, uninterpreted (or, "brute") facts, which have the same (theoretical) meaning to people with fundamentally different worldviews, because they deny that such a condition is even possible.^ I'm 38 and don't believe in God or any religion.
  • I had an intellectual conversation about the existence of god with a bunch of 8 year olds... whilst playing Modern Warfare 2. : AskReddit 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reddit.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ And, they didn't believe in the same god as me.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Today, we don't deny that God is personal.

 .They claim that the only possible proof for the existence of God is that the very same belief is the necessary condition to the intelligibility of all other human experience and action.^ But if God’s existence is possible – if we can conceive of a necessary being – he must exist.
  • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Surprisingly it is possible to prove the existence of God.
  • Can science be used to prove the existence of God? | Science | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]

 ^ Scientific proof of god's non-existence .
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 .In other words, they attempt to prove the existence of God by means of appeal to the alleged transcendental necessity of the belief — indirectly (by appeal to the allegedly unavowed presuppositions of the non-believer's worldview) rather than directly (by appeal to some form of common factuality).^ Surprisingly it is possible to prove the existence of God.
  • Can science be used to prove the existence of God? | Science | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]

 ^ As Leuba, the psychologist, has put it, God is used rather than believed in.

 ^ Scientific proof of god's non-existence .
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 .In practice this school utilizes what have come to be known as transcendental arguments.^ I mean, we get all het up over these arguments, but whether we come down on one side or the other, what practical difference does it make?
  • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 .In these arguments they claim to demonstrate that all human experience and action (even the condition of unbelief, itself) is a proof for the existence of God, because God's existence is the necessary condition of their intelligibility.^ Next » 36 Arguments for the Existence of God .
  • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It seems that the existence of God cannot be demonstrated.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Scientific proof of god's non-existence .
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

God exists, but this cannot be demonstrated nor refuted

.Others have suggested that the several logical and philosophical arguments for and against the existence of God miss the point.^ Next » 36 Arguments for the Existence of God .
  • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Teleology points to God’s existence, moral argument shows we miss God’s expectation.
  • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Arguments against God's existence have been given by philosophers, atheists, and agnostics.
  • http://mb-soft.com/believe/text/argument.htm 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC mb-soft.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The word God has a meaning in human culture and history that does not correspond to the beings whose existence is supported by such arguments, assuming they are valid.^ Next » 36 Arguments for the Existence of God .
  • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What does it mean to observe God?
  • Evan Cockshaw : Arguing for the Existence of God in the Age of Quantum Indeterminacy - Quodlibet Journal 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.quodlibet.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Not a God, not an animal, not another human being.
  • The existence of God and Jesus is a proven fact – as is Jersey being a Christian island » Comment » This Is Jersey 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.thisisjersey.com [Source type: Original source]

 .The real question is not whether a "most perfect being" or an "uncaused first cause" exist; the real question is whether Yahweh or Vishnu or Zeus, or some other deity of attested human religion, exists, and if so, which deity.^ I can also understand the concept that this most perfect island could exist in reality.
  • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Therefore, that being must exist in reality also.
  • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Question 1: Why do we need an uncaused cause?
  • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Most of these arguments do not resolve the issue of which of these figures is more likely to exist.^ Briefly, of the empirical argument it can be said that it proves nothing either in favor of or against the existence of God, that it does no more than suggest the possibility of a God existing.

 ^ These axioms are of all times, or to speak more properly, they exist before all time, and will ever remain after any comprehensible duration.
  • The Existence of God by Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon - Full Text Free Book (Part 2/2) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Now, do these images, more like their original than the masterpieces of the art of painting, imprint themselves in my head without any art?
  • The Existence of God by Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon - Full Text Free Book (Part 2/2) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Blaise Pascal suggested this objection in his Pensées when he wrote "The God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob — not the god of the philosophers!". Philosophical debate has also included Pascal's Wager, the idea of belief without evidence, based on possible rewards in the afterlife.^ One without a belief in god is an atheist.
  • 4-1 odds on the existence of God - Boing Boing 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.boingboing.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Without atheists, all Gods are possible.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But the difference is our belief is based on evidence.
  • Julian Baggini: Hume's targets are those who argue rationally for the existence of God or the reality of miracles | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]
.Some Christians note that the Christian faith teaches "salvation is by faith",[36] and that faith is reliance upon the faithfulness of God, which has little to do with the believer's ability to comprehend that in which he trusts.^ The God of the Christian faith has nothing to do with the God of the Muslim faith.
  • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Note that not all idiots believe in God.
  • There is a website that successfully argues for the existence of God.Here is the URL.Therefore, God exists. | MetaFilter 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If God is believed to be the first cause of creation it must also be accepted that He is distinct from His effect which He creates at some time according to His convenience.
.The most extreme example of this position is called fideism, which holds that faith is simply the will to believe, and argues that if God's existence were rationally demonstrable, faith in its existence would become superfluous.^ Hence it is rational to believe that god exists.
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It seems that the existence of God cannot be demonstrated.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Not that we would have to believe in God after witnessing this event.
  • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Søren Kierkegaard argued that objective knowledge, such as 1+1=2, is unimportant to existence.^ There is little objective reasoning in the pursuit of arguing for the existence of God using evidence from the natural world.
  • Evan Cockshaw : Arguing for the Existence of God in the Age of Quantum Indeterminacy - Quodlibet Journal 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.quodlibet.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Knowledge such as this is sufficient for the starting point of this fifth proof for the existence of God.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ He argued that some concept of God is essential at the start of any proof for the existence of God and such a concept includes the notion of God's existence.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 .If God could rationally be proven, his existence would be unimportant to humans.^ If existence could be proven, God would not be transcendent but simply a feature of the universe.
  • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If existence could be proven, God would not be transcendent but simply a feature of the universe.” .
  • Parchment and Pen » 10 Arguments for God's Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reclaimingthemind.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If the existence of God is proven, then God exists.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 .It is because God cannot rationally be proven that his existence is important to us.^ It seems that the existence of God cannot be demonstrated.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If the existence of God is proven, then God exists.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ How can he prove God's existence if rational argument is ruled out?
  • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

 .In The Justification of Knowledge, the Calvinist theologian Robert L. Reymond argues that believers should not attempt to prove the existence of God.^ It will be evident that I do not believe science or theology can prove God’s existence.
  • Evan Cockshaw : Arguing for the Existence of God in the Age of Quantum Indeterminacy - Quodlibet Journal 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.quodlibet.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ So does this prove the existence of God?
  • Scientific Evidence of the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC hubpages.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The idea of God does not prove his existence.

 .Since he believes all such proofs are fundamentally unsound, believers should not place their confidence in them, much less resort to them in discussions with non-believers; rather, they should accept the content of revelation by faith.^ A sort of fowl that swim, such as swans, keep their wings and most of their feathers above water, both lest they should wet them and that they may serve them, as it were, for sails.
  • The Existence of God by Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/2) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Considering the first, some believe that God does not change and God is not perfected or fulfilled by others, since they receive all of their perfection from Him, yet despite this perfection, God is different in His being than He somehow could have been.
  • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The only solution deism can suggest to all such problems is to accept the world as being without cause since otherwise it must inevitably be faced with the problem of answering all the questions.

 .Reymond's position is similar to that of his mentor, Gordon Clark, which holds that all worldviews are based on certain unprovable first premises (or, axioms), and therefore are ultimately unprovable.^ Isn't Anselm's first premise "i can conceive of God, which is a perfect being" or something similar?
  • There is a website that successfully argues for the existence of God.Here is the URL.Therefore, God exists. | MetaFilter 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Thus, in Euclid, the axioms are the first principles from which all the proposition A may ultimately be deduced.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The atheist must ultimately accept that the genocidal or 'depraved' atheist (there is no God therefore I do what I will) is no "worse" than the 'gentle' atheist (there is no God therefore let's all be friends) if his creed is true.
  • Can science be used to prove the existence of God? | Science | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]

 The Christian theist therefore must simply choose to start with Christianity rather than anything else, by a "leap of faith." This position is also sometimes called presuppositional apologetics, but should not be confused with the Van Tillian variety discussed above.
.An intermediate position is that of Alvin Plantinga who holds that a specific form of modal logic and an appeal to world-indexed properties render belief in the existence of God rational and justified, even though the existence of God cannot be proven in a mathematical sense.^ That is logical nonsense, as a god with potentiality cannot be a god.
  • is the existence of god real? [Archive] - weebls-stuff forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forum.weebls-stuff.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ It seems that the existence of God cannot be demonstrated.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ However, believing in God requires faith and cannot be logically proven.
  • Generation Terrorists Forum - Arguement for the un-existence of god 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.generationterrorists.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .Plantinga equates knowledge of God's existence with kinds of knowledge that are rational but do not proceed through proof, such as sensory knowledge.^ Scientific proof of god's non-existence .
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ For me, I have proof of the existence of God as well, in the bible.
  • Scientific Evidence of the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC hubpages.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Knowledge such as this is sufficient for the starting point of this fifth proof for the existence of God.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

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Atheism

.The atheistic conclusion is that the arguments indicate there is insufficient reason to believe that any gods exist.^ But I believe there are gods.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ As for me, I choose to believe in God and begin reasoning from there.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ ARGUMENT FROM PERFECTION (1) If there are absolute moral standards, then God exists.
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

Strong atheism

.Strong atheism (or positive atheism) is the position that no gods exist.^ If God exists, then there is no evil.
  • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ To say, then, that God is outside of time is to say that He is immutable, for if He exists wholly from one moment to the next, then there is no past or future for Him.
  • Evidence for God from Science • View topic - Emotions of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC discussions.godandscience.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ ARGUMENT FROM LACK OF EVIDENCE II (MODIFIED SIMPSON’S ARGUMENT) (1) God, if you exist, please give me absolutely no sign.
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 .The strong atheist explicitly asserts the non-existence of gods.^ Or experiences of God's non-existence?
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Quoting the main article: "This incontrovertible existence of God, this easily observed sociological phenomenon, has nothing to do with the sort of material or physical God that immature atheists are so eager to debunk."
  • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And therefore can never prove the non-existence of God.
  • Evan Cockshaw : Arguing for the Existence of God in the Age of Quantum Indeterminacy - Quodlibet Journal 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.quodlibet.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 [38] .Some strong atheists further assert that the existence of some or all gods is logically impossible, for example claiming that the combination of attributes which God may be asserted to have (for example: omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, transcendence, omnibenevolence) is logically contradictory, incomprehensible, or absurd, and therefore that the existence of such a god is a priori false.^ When one is in such a relationship with God, doubt of His existence is absurd.
  • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

 ^ His omnipotence is a necessary attribute, as are all of God's attributes and do not require any contributing factors.
  • is the existence of god real? [Archive] - weebls-stuff forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forum.weebls-stuff.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Therefore, all gods are false.
  • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]
Metaphysical naturalism is a common worldview associated with strong atheism.

Weak atheism

.The term weak atheism (or negative atheism) is used in two main senses, describing those who (a) do not assert strong atheism ("no gods exist") but rather the more minimal statement that for a variety of reasons (principally the lack of credible scientific evidence) there are no good reasons and no credible grounds for believing that gods exist ("I do not believe that any gods exist"); or (b) neither believe that gods exist, nor believe that no gods exist.^ To those who believe in the divinity of the bible there is no question as to it's correctness.
  • is the existence of god real? [Archive] - weebls-stuff forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forum.weebls-stuff.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ To those who attribute a lack of logic, indeed logical incomprehension, to those who believe in God: neither is it provable that there is no God, or that we are not creatures of God's mind (Bishop Barclay) .
  • Can science be used to prove the existence of God? | Science | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]

 ^ As for me, I choose to believe in God and begin reasoning from there.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

 .This is orthogonal to agnosticism which states that whether gods exist is either unknown or unknowable.^ Whether God exists?
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ God exists whether you like it or not.
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]
  • There is a website that successfully argues for the existence of God.Here is the URL.Therefore, God exists. | MetaFilter 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.metafilter.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ What it has not stated is that, if God exists , then he exists necessarily.
  • Evan Cockshaw : Arguing for the Existence of God in the Age of Quantum Indeterminacy - Quodlibet Journal 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.quodlibet.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 .It should be noted that there is some controversy about this use of the term.^ Here again it must be noted that the term "cause" is used, not identically, but proportionally, of the first and secondary causes.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ And THERE NEVER WILL BE! He is a construct of the human mind, I should say SOME human minds.
  • Some of the evidences of the existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC lofi.forum.physorg.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The greatest of these Theologians was Thomas Aquinas and I think that you should find out about some of the stuff which he wrote before casting an opinion.
  • is the existence of god real? [Archive] - weebls-stuff forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forum.weebls-stuff.com [Source type: Original source]

Agnosticism

.Agnosticism is the view that the truth value of certain claims — especially claims about the existence of any deity, but also other religious and metaphysical claims — is unknown or unknowable.^ The only thing that science can address about the existence of a deity is the processes occurring in the brains of those who are undergoing an experience they, themselves, characterise as "religious".
  • 4-1 odds on the existence of God - Boing Boing 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.boingboing.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But to allow one theory to be taught and the other to be criticized as religious fanaticism doesn't serve the scientific community very well in the search for the truth.
  • Generation Terrorists Forum - Arguement for the un-existence of god 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.generationterrorists.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ The existence of God and other like truths about God, which can be known by natural reason, are not articles of faith, but are preambles to the articles, for faith presupposes natural knowledge, even as grace presupposes nature, and perfection supposes something that can be perfected.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 [39] .Agnosticism as a broad umbrella term does not define one's belief or disbelief in gods, agnostics may still identify themselves as theists or atheists.^ Perhaps one may object: "Travelers have reported tribes without any belief or religion."
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Psalm 14:1 NIV The fool [a] says in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt, their deeds are vile; there is no one who does good.
  • Hot Air » Blog Archive » NYT recap: Hitchens versus Sharpton on the existence of God; Update: Hitch versus Douglas Wilson at Christianity Today 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC hotair.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If I am an atheist or a theist, I may reason clearly why I am so.
  • Evan Cockshaw : Arguing for the Existence of God in the Age of Quantum Indeterminacy - Quodlibet Journal 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.quodlibet.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

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Strong agnosticism

.Strong agnosticism is the belief that it is impossible for humans to know whether or not any deities exist.^ Though computers are significantly inferior to humans in all these capacities, it is nevertheless impossible to know to what extent this differs from the awareness found in human beings (ignoring complexity).
  • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Since disbelief is a form of belief, the degree of faith a person has that God does not exist is what determines how strong an atheist he or she is, or is not.
  • Some of the evidences of the existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC lofi.forum.physorg.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ But this would not be unless the existence of God could be demonstrated through the things that are made; for the first thing we must know of anything is, whether it exists.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

Weak agnosticism

Weak agnosticism is the belief that the existence or nonexistence of deities is unknown but not necessarily unknowable.

Agnostic theism

.Agnostic theism is the view of those who do not claim to know the existence of any deity but believes that at least one deity exists.^ Although…..at least I know it does exist!
  • The existence of God and Jesus is a proven fact – as is Jersey being a Christian island » Comment » This Is Jersey 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.thisisjersey.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ By that authority, the man who cannot follow the intricacies of proof, either by reason of inability or lack of leisured time, knows beyond question that the reason of man, by its own power, can certainly know the existence of God and that God, the supreme Being, certainly exists.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If you have some theist who believes that their deity(ies) are entirely natural, then I'll talk to their existence or lack thereof.
  • 4-1 odds on the existence of God - Boing Boing 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.boingboing.net [Source type: Original source]

Agnostic atheism

.Agnostic atheism is the view of those who do not claim to know the existence of any deity but do not believe in any.^ If you have some theist who believes that their deity(ies) are entirely natural, then I'll talk to their existence or lack thereof.
  • 4-1 odds on the existence of God - Boing Boing 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.boingboing.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ "Arguing against a position which you create specifically to be easy to argue against, rather than the position actually held by those who oppose your point of view.".
  • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 ^ The only thing that science can address about the existence of a deity is the processes occurring in the brains of those who are undergoing an experience they, themselves, characterise as "religious".
  • 4-1 odds on the existence of God - Boing Boing 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.boingboing.net [Source type: Original source]

 [40]
.The theologian Robert Flint explains: "If a man have failed to find any good reason for believing that there is a God, it is perfectly natural and rational that he should not believe that there is a God; and if so, he is an atheist, although he assume no superhuman knowledge, but merely the ordinary human power of judging of evidence.^ But I believe there are gods.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ As for me, I choose to believe in God and begin reasoning from there.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ No, I'm not going to explain why God should be rational.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

 .If he go farther, and, after an investigation into the nature and reach of human knowledge, ending in the conclusion that the existence of God is incapable of proof, cease to believe in it on the ground that he cannot know it to be true, he is an agnostic and also an atheist, an agnostic-atheist — an atheist because an agnostic."^ It seems that the existence of God cannot be demonstrated.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Scientific proof of god's non-existence .
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ God’s existence is possible by the ordinary processes of human knowledge."
  • Evan Cockshaw : Arguing for the Existence of God in the Age of Quantum Indeterminacy - Quodlibet Journal 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.quodlibet.net [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

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Apatheism

.The apatheist considers the question of God's existence or nonexistence to be of little or no practical importance.^ There is no evidence for the existence of God.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Helio, you already know one of my answers to your question (what if there was no God), but you didn't get round to answering the reverse when I asked you.
  • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 ^ This in turn raises serious doubts as to the adequacy of rationality's scope for answering the question of God's existence.
  • The Determinability of God's Existance 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ozemail.com.au [Source type: Original source]

Psychological aspects

See also: Evolutionary psychology of religion
.Several authors have offered psychological or sociological explanations for belief in the existence of God.^ We do have belief in the non-existence of the "god" offered up by the various religions.
  • Julian Baggini: Hume's targets are those who argue rationally for the existence of God or the reality of miracles | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 ^ For example, if we acknowledge the sociological existence of God, then we can predict, for example, that a new abortion clinic will meet with greater protest in a community where God's existence is more strongly expressed.
  • The Incontrovertible Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.adequacy.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Atheist offers several possible, natural explanations.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]

 .Many of these views have been sought to give a naturalistic explanation of religion, though this does not necessarily mean such views are exclusive to naturalism.^ Having potentiality does not necessarily mean that God will die.
  • is the existence of god real? [Archive] - weebls-stuff forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forum.weebls-stuff.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ I've seen too many people take words from the bible and invent a meaning to suit their goals to just believe this, even though I would like to.
  • I had an intellectual conversation about the existence of god with a bunch of 8 year olds... whilst playing Modern Warfare 2. : AskReddit 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.reddit.com [Source type: FILTERED WITH BAYES]

 ^ Let us allow the truth of all these wonderful instances of rationality; for all nature is full of such prodigies.
  • The Existence of God by Francois de Salignac de La Mothe- Fenelon - Full Text Free Book (Part 1/2) 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.fullbooks.com [Source type: Original source]
.Psychologists observe that the majority of humans often ask existential questions such as "why we are here" and whether life has purpose.^ This is the existential hades of human life.

 ^ Look it up :-)" To which I asked you to clarify whether you thought that I was guilty of a logical fallacy: “I don't tend to major on fallacies, and wasn't aware I was committing one.
  • BBC - Will & Testament: 36 Arguments for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.bbc.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 ^ If any one asks me the further question, Why are we naturally so prone to divide quantity?
  • ethica1 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.mtsu.edu [Source type: Original source]

 .Some psychologists have posited that religious beliefs may recruit cognitive mechanisms in order to satisfy these questions.^ And then of course there are the psychologists studying the interface between personality and religious belief.
  • Can science be used to prove the existence of God? | Science | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: General]

 ^ If it is applied to God, it becomes necessary to discover some cause of God in order to satisfy the requirements of this law.

 ^ It may be this man will try to satisfy his mind, and his heart, by the absurdities of order explained by chance, by the blindness of necessity that has no source, or the deceit of substituting a process for an explanation.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 William James emphasized the inner religious struggle between melancholy and happiness, and pointed to trance as a cognitive mechanism. Sigmund Freud stressed fear and pain, the need for a powerful parenteral figure, the obsessional nature of ritual, and the hypnotic state a community can induce as contributing factors to the psychology of religion.
.Pascal Boyer's "Religion Explained," (2002) based in part on his anthropological field work, treats belief in God as the result of the brain's tendency towards agency detection.^ To his dying day, Einstein held to his belief that as the result of the verification of his theory of General Relativity, God exists.

 ^ Almost every religion in the end develops a belief system in which God is described as "Nothing" which should be read as "Nothing we can know" .
  • is the existence of god real? [Archive] - weebls-stuff forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forum.weebls-stuff.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Just as all roads led to Rome in the ancient world, a popular belief today is that all religions connect people to God.
  • http://www.easycart.net/AlwaysBeReady/1_DVDs.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.easycart.net [Source type: General]

 .Boyer suggest that because of evolutionary pressures, we err on the side of attributing agency where there isn't any.^ And if there isn't, thats OK too, because yet again, my life doesn't change much.
  • is the existence of god real? [Archive] - weebls-stuff forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forum.weebls-stuff.com [Source type: Original source]

 In Boyer's view, belief in supernatural entities spreads and becomes culturally fixed because of their memorability. .The concept of 'minimally-counterintuitive' beings that differ from the ordinary in a small number of ways (such as being invisible, able to fly, or having access to strategic and otherwise secret information) leave a lasting impression that spreads through word-of-mouth.^ We know that all humans are mortal because humanity, as such, involves mortality, it is the nature of a human being to be mortal; mortality follows necessarily from its having an animal body.
  • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ There is no perfect way to knowledge and therefore there is no imperfect way (the concept of "imperfect" being contingent of the (transcendental) concept "perfect".
  • Julian Baggini: Hume's targets are those who argue rationally for the existence of God or the reality of miracles | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.guardian.co.uk [Source type: Original source]

 ^ For each must exist in itself, and be conceived through itself; in other words, the conception of one does not imply the conception of the other.
  • ethica1 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.mtsu.edu [Source type: Original source]
.Scott Atran's "In Gods We Trust: The Evolutionary Landscape of Religion" (2002) makes a similar argument and adds examination of the socially coordinating aspects of shared belief.^ ARGUMENT FROM MEANNESS If God did exist, it would be mean of him to make me believe he didnt!
  • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ ARGUMENT FROM FUTURE EVIDENCE It doesn't seem to make sense that there would logically be a God.
  • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]

 ^ ARGUMENT FROM PHOTO-OP (ARGUMENT FROM THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE II) A couple of federal judges ruled in 2002 that the Pledge was unconstitutional because it states "one nation, under God.
  • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]

 .In "Minds and Gods: The Cognitive Foundations of Religion," Todd Tremlin follows Boyer in arguing that universal human cognitive process naturally produces the concept of the supernatural.^ Foundations of the deductive tract on the nature of God.
  • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ We know that all humans are mortal because humanity, as such, involves mortality, it is the nature of a human being to be mortal; mortality follows necessarily from its having an animal body.
  • Twenty Arguments For The Existence Of God by Peter Kreeft & Ronald K. Tacelli 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.peterkreeft.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ (Good book on Einstein's extensive discussions of religion and theology: Einstein and Religion: Physics and Theology by Max Jammer -Ed ) God created the universe and God is intelligent.

 .Tremlin contends that an agency detection device (ADD) and a theory of mind module (ToMM) lead humans to suspect an agent behind every event.^ Instead, we would have to attribute every human action to the mysterious goblins behind the intellects.
  • Evidence for the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC sguthrie.net [Source type: Original source]

 .Natural events for which there is no obvious agent thus may be attributed to God.^ There is no evidence for God, as there is with Unicorns.
  • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

 ^ Olympus and there were no gods there.
  • Hundreds of Proofs of God�s Existence 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.godlessgeeks.com [Source type: Original source]
  • http://www.tektonics.org/guest/300proof.html 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.tektonics.org [Source type: Original source]
  • Over Three Hundred Proofs of God’s Existence- ExChristian.Net - Articles 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC exchristian.net [Source type: Original source]

 ^ You believe that there is no god!
  • is the existence of god real? [Archive] - weebls-stuff forums 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC forum.weebls-stuff.com [Source type: Original source]

See also

References

  1. ^ see eg The Rationality of Theism quoting Quentin Smith "God is not 'dead' in academia; he returned to life in the late 1960s". They cite "the shift from hostility towards theism in Paul Edwards's Encyclopedia of Philosophy (1967) to sympathy towards theism in the more recent Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  2. ^ Both following Aquinas, see Quinquae viae.
  3. ^ A modern re-statement, see
  4. ^ Following Anselm's Ontological argument
  5. ^ See Richard Swinburne's Does God Exist? or Polkinghorne
  6. ^ See the articles on them, and especially Einstein's 1940 paper in Nature
  7. ^ Hebbar, Neria Harish. "The Principal Upanishads". http://www.boloji.com/hinduism/037.htm. Retrieved 2007-01-12. 
  8. ^ Those holding this range from Dawkins to Ward to Plantinga.
  9. ^ Polkinghorne, John (1998). Belief in God in an Age of Science. Yale University Press. ISBN 0300072945. 
  10. ^ see his God and Other Minds: A Study of the Rational Justification of Belief in God Cornell (1990) ISBN 0801497353 and Warranted Christian Belief OUP (2000) ISBN 0195131932
  11. ^ See e.g. the Beale/Howson debate published Prospect May, 1998
  12. ^ see eg The Probability of God by Stephen D. Unwin its criticism in The God Delusion, and the critical comment in that article.
  13. ^ Klostermaier, Klaus K. (2007). A survey of Hinduism. Albany: Sate University of New York Press. pp. 357. ISBN 0-7914-7081-4. 
  14. ^ Sudesh Narang (1984)The Vaisnava Philosophy According to Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa, p. 30
  15. ^ Maria Ekstrand; Bryant, Edwin H. (2004). The Hare Krishna movement: the postcharismatic fate of a religious transplant. New York: Columbia University Press. pp. 7. ISBN 0-231-12256-X. 
  16. ^ PLANTINGA, ALVIN (1998). God, arguments for the existence of. In E. Craig (Ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy. London: Routledge. Retrieved March 3, 2007, from [1] he attributes this to Charles Hartshorne
  17. ^ Isa. 41:21-24
  18. ^ Isa. 44:6-7
  19. ^ 2 Timothy 3:16
  20. ^ Amos 3:7
  21. ^ Polkinghorne, John. Science and Christian Belief. pp. 108–122. 
  22. ^ Reichenbach, Bruce R. (April 1989). "Karma, causation, and divine intervention". Philosophy East and West (Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press) 39 (2): pp. 135–149. http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/reiche2.htm. Retrieved 29/12/2009. 
  23. ^ see,Theistic Explanations of Karma, pg. 146 of Causation and Divine Intervention by BR Reichenbach at http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/reiche2.htm citing Sankara's commentary on Brahma Sutras,III, 2, 38, and 41.
  24. ^ See, Theistic Explanations of Karma, Causation and Divine Intervention by BR Reichenbach at http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/reiche2.htm citing Sankara's commentary on Brahma Sutras,III, 2, 38, and 41.
  25. ^ See Theistic Explanations of Karma, pg. 146 of Causation and Divine Intervention by BR Reichenbach, citing Uddyotakara, Nyaayavaarttika, IV, 1, 21, at http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/reiche2.htm
  26. ^ See Theistic Explanations of Karma, pg. 146 of Causation and Divine Intervention by BR Reichenbach, citing Uddyotakara, Nyaayavaarttika, IV, 1, 21, at http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/reiche2.htm
  27. ^ See Theistic Explanations of Karma, pg. 146 of Causation and Divine Intervention by BR Reichenbach, citing Uddyotakara, Nyaayavaarttika, IV, 1, 21, at http://ccbs.ntu.edu.tw/FULLTEXT/JR-PHIL/reiche2.htm
  28. ^ (Stuttgart, 1908)
  29. ^ Swinburne, Richard (1997). Is there a God?. Oxford University Press. ISBN 0198235453. 
  30. ^ (A. Stöckl, Geschichte der neueren Philosophie, II, 82 sqq.)
  31. ^ (Stöckl, loc. cit., 199 sqq.)
  32. ^ Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought, Pascal Boyer, Basic Books (2001)
  33. ^ Introduction To Materialist Apologetics
  34. ^ Romans 1:20
  35. ^ .For the proofs of God's existence by Saint Thomas Aquinas see Quinquae viae.^ Scientific proof of god's non-existence .
    • Scientific proof of god's non-existence | Machines Like Us 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC machineslikeus.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ For me, I have proof of the existence of God as well, in the bible.
    • Scientific Evidence of the Existence of God 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC hubpages.com [Source type: Original source]

     ^ Such are the proofs for the existence of God.
    • St. Thomas Aquinas 30 January 2010 2:02 UTC www.ewtn.com [Source type: Original source]
  36. ^ 2 Timothy 3:14-15 NIV "But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus." (Scripture taken from the HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved.)
  37. ^ Plantinga, Alvin (1974). The Nature of Necessity. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 63. "An object has all its world-indexed properties in every world in which it exists. So if we take an object x and a property P and worlds W and W* such that x has the properties of having-P-in-W and having-non-P-in-W*, we will find that x also has the properties of having-P-in-W-in-W* and having-non-P-in-W*-in-W" 
  38. ^ Richard Dawkins is the most famous contemporary example, in a line stretching back through Russell and Marx to the 18th Century
  39. ^ Carroll, Robert (2009-02-22). "agnosticism". The Skeptic's Dictionary. skepdic.com. http://skepdic.com/agnosticism.html. Retrieved 2009-10-17. 
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  41. ^ Flint, Robert (1903). "Erroneous VIews of Agnosticism". Agnosticism. C. Scribner sons. pp. 50. http://books.google.com/books?id=DWMtAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22agnostic+atheism%22&output=text&source=gbs_navlinks_s. Retrieved 2009-11-15. 

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12+8=