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Arguments for the Existence of God Rene Descartes (1596-1650) is known as one of the most influential Western philosophers today....

God first made covenants with individuals - Adam, Noah, Moses, Abraham, David, then with a nation - the Israelites, and then, with...

cross? Or, do you accept and live by Christs Gospel and gain eternal joy through Him. Paul continues: "For it is written: "I will...

patients who were able to learn the art of "conscious relaxation" not only were able to quit smoking and eat better, but showed im...

a cause. The best solution for the primal cause of the universe is God; therefore, God exists. However, this brings up the questio...

is not particularly concerned with explaining the universe, but rather offers the argument to how that God exists. "You ask me, wh...

course, defines that which is proper conduct, it distinguishes right from wrong; morality points to proper behavior that serves so...

vision of the natural world in which Gods presence can be seen as flowing through it like an electric current. This presence can b...

God wills at any particular moment." To this proposition, Nielsen poses three questions: 1. Is being willed by God the, or even a,...

are already well acquainted with the Torah, his book provides an excellent introduction for those that are only somewhat familiar ...

idea that nothing comes from nothing. Reality in itself must come from a cause that is at least equal if not more so than its effe...

speaker is Philo, a religious skeptic (Johnson 266). The discussion is chiefly between Philo and Cleanthes, with occasional remar...

youth by by those who wanted to restore democracy to Athens (PG). While Socrates had much faith in people and believed that morali...

various things as they approach in diverse ways toward something that is the greatest, just as in the case of hotter (more hot) wh...

constant when the resultant external force acting on the system is zero" and if the system is the universe there are no external f...

is Anselms primary opponent in his argument regarding the existence of God. Kants separation between the analytic and the synthet...

be a less sure guide than revelation; however, Aquinas did believe it possible to reach certain truths without the aid of revelati...

at the bottom of the ladder, and humanity at the top, by virtue of the faculty of reason (Augustine of Hippo, 2001). After carefu...

that there is "within the human mind, and indeed by natural instinct, an awareness of divinity," that "God himself has implanted i...

This will be my name forever; it has always been my name, and it will be used throughout all generations" (Exodus 3:15). "God rep...

come from western society and not conform to the lifestyle of the Muslims there. Not wearing veils was seen as immoral (1969). If ...

that any passage outside our sensitive impressions was not possible and as such "there is no metaphysics: we know nothing of God, ...

the universe and the cells of life on the planet, it was assumed that this enormous and highly intricate mechanism had a designer ...

of the most important philosophers when talking about knowledge and where it comes from. His explanation suggests that there is a ...

Descartes seemed to think that the way to find objectivity, from a subjective existence, would be to prove that a perfect God is t...

controversial writings on religion and morality (Hume, 2002). In fact, he continued to turn out essays and critical writings on ev...

Canonization (Canonization Information, 2002). This step is key because this is what often distinguishes a mere "accident" from a...

While Hume appears down to Earth and logical, he is, in a very general sense, a skeptic. He notes that there is a battle between r...

even more challenging. He takes dualism to its logical end by insisting that we not only cannot prove that the matter exists, but ...

He asserted that evidence that God exists in a singular or plural context because it has become universally accepted as truth (135...