Pascal's Wager Pascal states in the first argument that we are incapable of knowing whether God exists or not, so we must believe one way or the other. He says that we are stuck between two infinities. These infinities are the beginning and the end of human life. Therefore we have no pro...

The historical development of religion has taken many turns, ingesting the new ideas of each major philosopher as he questions the ideas put forth by the man or era before him. In this constant questioning and development of ideas, the trend has changed from theism and faith to more rational religi...

Proof Of The Exsistence of God Either God exists or He doesn't. There is no middle ground. Any attempt to remain neutral in relation to God's existence is automatically synonymous with unbelief. It is far from a moot question, for if God does exist, then nothing else really matters; if He does not e...

Many readers follow Descartes with fascination and pleasure as he contends in the midst of all the skepticism in the first two Meditations. Descartes refutes the skeptics by means of his famous axiom, "cogito, ergo sum". From this premise that a clear consciousness of his thinking proved his own e...

The Kalam Cosmological ArgumentThe major modern proponent of the 'kalam cosmological argument', William Lane Craig, sets out the argument as follows:1.Whatever began to exist has a cause of its existence.2.The universe began to exist.3.Therefore, the universe has a cause of its existence.(Craig 2003...