Questions tagged [existence-of-god]
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Can God make the belief in His own existence justified (if He exists)?
In a hypothetical scenario in which God exists, would God be able to make the belief in His existence justified for humans? If so, how? What would God need to do to accomplish that goal? If not, does ...
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Is God even more improbable than the origin of life?
This question came up with a chat with one of the members here. In his Ultimate Boeing 747 Gambit argument, Dawkins states that one cannot use the improbability of life to state that God must have ...
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Is the existence of God a question within the purview of science?
Some people, including perhaps most philosophers, believe that the existence of God is a philosophical question, not a scientific one. But is it really? It seems to me that while the existence of a ...
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Proof of the existence of God?
Here it is, the long-awaited proof for the existence of God (for your consideration).
I have taken the liberty of defining discretely what God is, without which there is no question to be answered (...
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Please criticize my argument for a first cause
Salaamualykum, I would like this argument to be strengthened by criticism: Everything has a cause, by cause I mean mean something that "therefores it" regardless of your definition. if ...
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Is complete agnosticism about god warranted? If not, how can one represent this?
In discussions related to Pascal’s wager, which I’m hoping most of you are familiar with, one of the objections against it is to simply refuse to assign a probability to God’s existence. The argument ...
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How can we exist?
Positing that God exists and is perfect (by the fact that he is the moral authority and is thought of as absolute perfection according to the general consensus); a change that he makes would mean that ...
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Does it make sense to consider God meaning is 0? [closed]
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Mathematics is science, that can prove or disprove everything.
That is the meaning of Mathematics, prove or disprove any statement.
When somebody say something, that something are statements ...
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Moral arguments against dystheism (in the spirit of James Rachels)
Here's my almost-twenty-years-old memory of Rachels' argument (I read it in an introduction-to-ethics class at a community college):
If God existed, there would be a being more important, morally, ...
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What if time and quantum corrections were created because the idea of "god" was damaged?
Assuming the idea of "God" exists. In its most perfect form, should physics not be without the various quantum phenomena with a renormalizable gravitational theory? Perhaps the idea of ...
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Is a naïve logical argument against god rational?
I have seen a short clip recently, in which someone used a proof by
contradiction that a being cannot be omniscient (including past, present and
future) and have free will at the same time. There are ...
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Isn't there a very obvious flaw in the Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit?
I have read the Wikipedia article on the Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit, first published by Richard Dawkins, and it seems to me that there is a very obvious problem with the argument that isn't mentioned ...
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Why would God condemn all and only those that don't believe in God? [closed]
Why would God condemn all and only those that don't believe in God? I am not saying God, if there is such a thing, could not condemn or forgive anyone. But is there anything but scriptural support for ...
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Is a prediction better than an ad/post hoc hypothesis apriori?
Suppose John wins the lottery. Eric, after he wins, claims that he rigged the lottery for John to win. Now imagine an alternative scenario where Eric predicts that John will win and that he claims to ...
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Is there such a thing as an argument from unconstrained possibilities against God?
If God doesn’t exist, and all that exists are natural laws in a brute sense, it seems that the number of possible configurations of the world are tiny compared to the number of possible configurations ...
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