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Bob: Today in class, someone mentioned that the concept of God is a false belief. I am not sure whether I believe this and therefore know such a statement. What do you think?Jane: Hmmm...what an interesting topic. I see that you partake in agnosticism because you do not have enough evidence to neither support the belief of God's existence nor reject it. First, Bob, I must address that while theology may take God's existence as absolutely necessary on the basis of authority, faith, or revelation, many philosophers and some theologians have thought it possible to demonstrate by reason that there must be a God. So let's see if I can help clarify things for you. Luckily this subject goes right up my alley! Well, first you must question the existence of God. And this problem is indeed a profound one. Although there is no empirical evidence to prove the existence of God, there are only rational arguments one can make to support the establishment of this metaphysical theory. Bob: Well, what good reasons do you have to support the existence of God?Jane: Oh, my dear I have many awaiting for your youthful mind. First, we will discuss the ontological argument. Since, even a fool can reason the existence of God, try out this ar
Every time that I drop an object, it falls to the earth. By allowing an uncaused God, why is it any more implausible to accept an uncaused universe? Without the requirement of a first cause, your arguments for God or a prime mover encounter serious difficulties. Should the sun be closer or further from the earth, life would not exist. Let's see if you can explain this Jane. Should the composition of the earth's atmosphere vary slightly, all life on earth would be destroyed. Nonetheless, there must be an initial cause for this succession of causes and effects. Therefore, since time is infinite, there must be some time at which none of these things existed. Therefore, if it's possible to conceive of a most perfect being, such a being necessarily exists. Thus, you must conclude there is no ultimate first cause, or there is such a cause which itself is uncaused. Bob: But what caused God? Given the premise that everything has a cause, you have already violated the constraints you have further asserted. Jane: OK, well if you understand the phrase "most perfect being," then you already have conceived of such a being. The cosmological argument claims that for every event there must be a cause.
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