Questions tagged [existence-of-god]
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Evil God Challenge: What if an evil god is just trolling humanity and that explains why there's good in the world?
I've been reading up on the idea of there being an evil god. There's a lot of interesting arguments but I haven't come across anyone mentioning this argument: that all the goodness in the world is ...
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What is the use in arguing for or against the existence of metaphysical things?
It seems to me that we ought to be rather indifferent to their existence. Take free will, for example. By the nature of how it's defined, and its incompatibility with science, it can't be proven nor ...
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Is Blaise Pascal's approach to "curing unbelief" in the proposition that God exists philosophically sound?
Hence it comes that, if there are as many risks on one side as on the
other, the course is to play even; and then the certainty of the stake
is equal to the uncertainty of the gain, so far is it from ...
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Can a reliabilist have a reliably justified belief in God?
Reliabilism is defined by several sources as follows:
Reliabilism is an approach to the nature of knowledge and of justified belief. Reliabilism about justification, in its simplest form, says that a ...
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In the argument of Contingency(Leibnizian Cosmological Argument) can a necessary existent have alternatives? [closed]
Hello I've got a question about Leibnizian Cosmological Argument, In the argument can a necessary existent have alternatives? Why yes and why not? And are numbers considered as alternatives to each ...
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Are there any fallacies in Stephen C. Meyer's argument for classical theism from the Big Bang singularity?
Christian YouTuber and apologist Brandon McGuire recently shared a review of Piers Morgan's interview with Stephen C. Meyer, author of Return of the God Hypothesis, on his talk show Piers Morgan ...
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How can God gives us free will and yet be the creator and originator of everything at the same time? [closed]
Religious people say we have free will in that god has the knowledge of whatever will happen but he doesn't cause our actions, we have a choice. I did an act of sin out of my own choice; god was only ...
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If we assume God exists, why isn't He doing something about all the wars and suffering on Earth? Is there a plan behind His reasoning? [duplicate]
Just so you know, I'm religious, I'm Christian. However, that doesn't stop me from wondering about this question. I'm sure someone must have asked a similar question before, so I'm sorry if I'm boring ...
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How Probable is the Philosophical Significance of Numerical Patterns in Religious Texts?
I have a Muslim friend who told me about a chapter in the Quran (the holy book of Muslims) in which he claims there is a "numerical miracle."
This chapter is unique in the Quran because a ...
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Are agent explanations better than non agent explanations?
Suppose you were using a telescope and zooming into Jupiter on the surface and saw a rock that had a face that looked very very much like your great grand mother. Suppose that it was very detailed to ...
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Can belief in God be grounded in (and justified by) personal experience rather than philosophical argumentation?
Attempts at legitimizing belief in God through reasoned philosophical argumentation abound in the fields of natural theology and apologetics. This is particularly evident in formal debates and ...
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Does the "Sniper Firing Squad" analogy undermine the anthropic principle’s objection to the fine-tuning argument for God's existence?
The anthropic principle, also known as the "observation selection effect", is the hypothesis, first proposed in 1957 by Robert Dicke, that the range of possible observations that could be ...
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Does theism postulate an overly complicated and unnecessary extra step?
One presentation of this argument is put forward by Carl Sagan:
"If the general picture, however, of a Big Bang followed by an expanding universe is correct - what happened before that? Was the ...
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What is the state-of-the-art of formal definitions of God?
Isn't the only formal analytic definition of God, that of Cantor's Absolute Infinity?
What is the state-of-the-art of this approach?
Are there other definitions?
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Are there published rebuttals of Patrick Flynn's recent book "The Best Argument for God"?
The Best Argument for God, by Patrick Flynn, was recently published on October 17th, 2023. With only 21 votes on Amazon so far, it has garnered an average rating of 4.9 (as of March 25th, 2024). Does ...
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