Existence

             In A.C Ewing's, "Proofs of God's Existenceâ€" Ewing breaks down his views
             with three different arguments. The first is the ontological argument, the second is
             the cosmological argument, and the third is the teleological argument. Each one of
             these arguments proves Ewing's point of view thoroughly, and sincerely.
             The ontological argument states that we prove the existence of God by
             reflections of what are ideas are about him. God is understood to be an individual or
             being who knows everything, which in other words is considered to be omniscient. If
             something is true, God (real or fictitious) would know it. Correspondingly, if something
             is false, God (real or fictitious) would know that as well. Along with this goes the fact
             that we conceive of God as encompassing all rationality. A being who created the
             universe but was irrational, for example, would not appropriately be called God.
             Another point that supports this argument is that all rational individuals believe in their
             own existence. Even if they don't exist, this is acknowledged to be the case. Existing
             individuals believe correctly in their own existence, while fictitious individuals are sadly
             mistaken on this point. If God did not exist, then by our first point, above, God would
             know that he or she did not exist. But this contradicts our second point. So God must
             Reasoning known as the cosmological argument tries to justify belief in God by
             pointing to the existence of the cosmos, its causal orderliness, and suspected evidence of
             its being in some sense designed to include life and intelligence. Some cosmologists
             believe that the existence and order of the cosmos can be accounted for scientifically. Its
             life-permitting character might itself, be explained through its being divided into
             universes. These could vary randomly in their features, ours being one of the
             perhaps very rare ones in which ...

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