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The Existence Of God And The Problem Of Evil A Philosophical Evaluation
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Augustine, Dunscotus, St. Thomas Aquinas sought to find more
concrete and solid evidences for the existence of God. To Plato, God is
transcendence; that is the highest and most perfect being, and on who
uses eternal forms or archetypes, to fashion a universe that is
eternal and uncreated. Different philosophers right from the early
philosophic thoughts to the modern have tried in a lot of ways to give
rational proofs to God's existence. They have tried to explain god's
nature in the scheme of things. We shall discuss the following argument
to prove the existence of God
1. cosmological Argument
2. Argument from Design
3. Ontological Argument
1.Cosmological
Argument: This argument is usually associated with Thomas Aquinas, he
argues that the things which we see around us now are the products of a
series of previous causes. Thus, there must be some first cause which
was not itself caused by anything else. And that first uncaused caused
by God. It could be referred to as the causal argument or first causes.
The argument in its simplest from states that:
All that exists is
caused by something other than Itself, and the universe exists. So the
universe is caused by something other than itself, whatever caused the
universe is greater than the universe So God caused the universe11.
There
are also the experiential argument, in which people
widen
personal religions experiences of God argue in support of his
existence we have argument by reason and moral MgvffiaerA.
2.Argument
from Design: This argument states that animals, plants and planets show
clear signs of being designed for specific ends, therefore there must
have been a designer. The argument from designer can also be called the
theological argument for the existence of God. Proponents claim that the
design or order found in the universe provides evidence for the
existence of an intelligent designer usually identified as God.
William
parley here compared the complexity of living things to the inferior
complexity of a watch that we know to be designed by an
intelligent being. Just as a watch could not exist without a watchmaker.
Parley argued that living things could not exist without an intelligent
designer.
Since watches are the products of intelligent design, and
living things are like watches in having complicated me chansons which
serve a purpose, living things are probably the products of intelligent
design as well.12
3.Ontological Argument: This argument is called an
ontological argument because it points to the existence of God through
the type of being. The perfect being conceivable, and anything that is
the greatest or most perfect being is something that exists (otherwise
it would lack something and fail to be the greatest or most perfect
thing conceived ) so God exists because of the notion that God is a
perfect being, that he is all knowing, all powerful, and all good. This
argument states that everyone except the fool believes in his mind that
there is a being greater and prefect, which is God. Therefore, for man
to have been able to conceive the idea of a being greater than it, point
to the fact that God exists in reality.
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