Questions tagged [existence-of-god]
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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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Can someone formulate John Pollack's argument in understandable terms for laymen?
http://www.strongatheism.net/library/atheology/ontological_argument_for_nonexistence/
By the way, I am not asking whether this argument is sound or not. I just want to have it formulated in ...
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Grim Reaper Paradox Objections
I find the argument from first cause, contingency, and actualization to be emboldened by the very compelling thought experiment known as the Grim Reaper Paradox. For those unaware, Alexander Pruss and ...
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How rational "God permitting the killing of children as a greater good " defense"?
According to the Quran 18:65–82, Moses meets a man(called the Servant of God)
Moses asks for permission to accompany the Servant of God so Moses can learn "right knowledge of what he hasbeen ...
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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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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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What is the definition of 'The System of all positive properties is compatible'?
A sentence at the end of goedel's 1970 proof of god's existence is:
The possibility of god's existence means
'The System of all positive properties is compatible'
But without knowledge what ...
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If there is no more gap, is the existence of God the logical conclusion?
The god of the gaps is used to fill the last gap in front of a fundamental explanation of the physical world.
Fundamental physical constants, like the masses of the elementary particle families (or ...
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The timeline of everything
My friend (catholic) and I (atheist) were taking about religion. We bare both scientists and therefore wanted to look at it scientifically.
After discussing, We have stopped at the question about ...
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Problems with ontological arguments
In the ontological argument, Anselm assumes that "A being that exists as an idea in the mind and in reality is, other things being equal, greater than a being that exists only as an idea in the ...
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If Non-existence is nonexistent, then does that mean a Supernatural Exists?
Ok, what I am asking is bascially, if non-existence (which I use synonymously with the word 'nothing' - this is my defintion of 'nothing' in this piece - non-existence, so please no dcitionary ...
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