Questions tagged [existence-of-god]
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Can i ask the God Question? [closed]
This question is more directed at "Person of Science" rather than a "person" looking at the following real question from "science" point of view;
What will it take for a ...
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Does physicalism in philosophy accept the concept of God as the notion of supervenience?
The word "physicalism" was introduced into philosophy in the 1930s by
Otto Neurath and Rudolf Carnap.[6]
The use of "physical" in physicalism is a philosophical concept and
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If the rover found a men's wristwatch on the sands of Mars, can we infer Intelligent design? [closed]
This question is usually asked about finding a watch on the beach and inferring that it was created, not something the crustaceans just happened to stick together to hide under.
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Is there evidence that Kurt Gödel took his proof of the existence of God to be conclusive?
Kurt Gödel, usually regarded by academics as probably the greatest logician of the 20th century (although not by me), produced a formal proof that the existence of God is a logical necessity.
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Does naturalism predict the rarity of life better than theism? [closed]
If there is no god, then that would imply the origin of life would have to be undesigned. If it is undesigned, it would have to occur through an improbable process (there are many more ways for ...
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Are certain kinds of gods more likely than others? Is this question meaningful? [closed]
Is it meaningful to talk about the likelihood of different kinds of gods, and in what sense a particular kind of god is more likely than another?
For example, one can imagine different kinds of “gods” ...
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How does God know things if He is immaterial? [closed]
In our material reality, made of composite beings, knowledge appears to correspond to storage in or interaction with a physical substance (e.g., memory stored in the brain). If God is immaterial and ...
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Can the same arguments used to reject metaphysical solipsism also support accepting the existence of God?
Why do most people reject metaphysical solipsism and instead accept the reality of an external world? There are two primary reasons:
The perception of having repeated conscious experiences of an ...
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After Kant called God a "moral ideal", did any philosopher develop a theory of how God's World could possibly work?
Did any philosopher since Kant, go beyond simply believing in God, and actually developing a concept/theory of how our reality created by God can exist/develop/end?
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Is god having attributes that are infinite simpler than having finite attributes? [closed]
In his book The Existence of God, Richard Swinburne compares infinite “values” to any specific numerical value, claiming that the specific numerical value (say the speed of light) “cries out for an ...
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Can psychological motivations serve as an argument against god? [closed]
Philosophy is riddled with arguments for and against god, especially in Western philosophy. But I was curious as to where philosophers discuss the creation of the very concepts themselves and whether ...
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What are some arguments to answer the God Of The Gaps Problem? [closed]
If we were to assume that there is a necessary being, what are some arguments that will logically declare that the necessary being is certainly God.
Necessary Being is a being that has to exist, ...
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A question about the existence of god [closed]
If Darwin's theory of evolution is right and there mustn't be a God as per atheistic beliefs, why does prayer work and people get better when they invoke Jesus or other such father figure? There are ...
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Is the focus on monotheism by western philosophy due to cultural bias? [closed]
Western philosophy has a lot of argumentation regarding the existence of a God, almost exclusively monotheistic or with purely infinite attributes. There have been many books written about the ...
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Can Einstein's reasons for believing in Spinoza's God be structured as a deductive or syllogistic argument?
I'll start with a few quotes from Religious and philosophical views of Albert Einstein - Wikipedia:
Albert Einstein's religious views have been widely studied and often misunderstood. Albert Einstein ...
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Does Pascal's Wager refute Apatheism?
Formal Version
Does Pascal's Wager refute Apatheism?
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If there is at least a non-negligible chance that a deity might exist to whom I could be morally accountable and with whom I might ...
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Why does Intelligent Design support God more than aliens?
Throughout this question, let's assume that Intelligent Design is true.
People sometimes use Intelligent Design to conclude that God must exist. However, it seems to me that Intelligent Design can ...
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Determinism and Spinoza
Spinoza argues that no two substances can share attributes. This is the way I understand it: modes can be fully explained via attributes. So, if we had two substances with the same attributes, they ...
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What reasons are there for rejecting Apathetic Agnosticism?
Wikipedia defines apathetic agnosticism as follows:
Apathetic agnosticism
A view related to apatheism, apathetic agnosticism claims that no amount of debate can prove or disprove the existence of one ...
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Would Pascal's Wager hold validity if doxastic involuntarism were true?
According to Wikipedia, Pascal's wager is defined as follows:
The wager uses the following logic (excerpts from Pensées, part III, §233):
God is, or God is not. Reason cannot decide between the two ...
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What is the difference between Pantheism and Atheism?
I was talking about pantheism, and my interlocutor asked me the difference between pantheism and atheism. I realized the difference is fragile if there is any.
My question lies in the difference ...
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Can we choose to believe in God?
Philosophically, arguments both for and against the existence of God can be found.
Alex O'Connor and Joe Schmid have compiled the following:
Arguments For:
The Contingency Argument
The Kalam ...
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Is there anything like a poll on the most plausible or convincing arguments for believing in God's existence?
This video presents a tier list ranking seven philosophical arguments:
The Contingency Argument
The Kalam Cosmological Argument
The Anselmian Ontological Argument
The Modal Ontological Argument
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Can the faith experience upheld by fideism be considered a case of phenomenologically experiencing or observing God?
I was intrigued by the question Is observation the only way to indicate that God is real? and this answer, which suggests fideism as an alternative to the observational epistemology proposed by the OP....
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Is observation the only way to indicate that God is real?
I'm having trouble thinking of any evidence that would make it reasonable to believe in god and I can't wrap my head around it. I can definitely think of examples that would make it seem super obvious ...
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Do our views of existing of non-real objects have common characteristics?
If we come to the conclusion, as realists, that reality has a conscious-independent existence, we could extend our investigation to the question whether there are things outside reality that also ...
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How is Alvin Plantinga's concept of sensus divinitatis reconciled with the problem of divine hiddenness in philosophy of religion?
Previously, I asked What kind of epistemology would justify accepting religious claims that lie beyond the reach of scientific and historical verification?, and @Conifold provided an insightful ...
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If a loving God existed, would it be reasonable to expect Him to interact more directly with people than He appears to?
I can't recall a time when God—if He exists—has ever approached me in a clear and discernible way. If a loving God were real, wouldn't it make sense for Him to interact with us more directly? Imagine ...
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If God was real would there be physical evidence of him? [closed]
A theist claims that they have faith in the truth of God despite any evidence to support and validate that faith.
An atheist does not share that faith in God because to validate truth, you need ...
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Can objective morality be derived as a corollary from the assumption of God's existence?
For the sake of argument, let’s assume that a God does exist. From this premise/axiom, how would it logically follow that objective morality exists?
Even if it’s objectively true that God can punish ...
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Is precognition incompatible with God? [closed]
Precognition is usually associated as a supernatural quality.
If precognition is true, then everything that follows from an event is determined by that event.
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What is the Theistic response for Necessary being has conscious or not? [duplicate]
In the Argument of Contingency (Leibniz and Aquinas Cosmological Argument) and Ontological Argument, it is argued that necessary being exists and they claim Necessary being is God. My question is Why ...
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Is the law of excluded middle sufficient motivation to accept P3 of this argument?
Recently I was arguing with a buddy who provided this derivation of the Kalam cosmological argument.
P1: Everything that begins to exist has a cause.
P2: The universe began to exist.
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Does God or a non-physical Necessary Being have to be omni-potent?
If the Necessary Being was non-physical but not an abstract object either, does it have to be omnipotent. Also, what is the relationship between omnipotence and the modal argument?
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Can something other than God be necessary being(other than abstract objects), like non-physical metaphysically systems?
In the Leibnizian and Aquinas Cosmological argument(contingency), it is mentioned that there is 2 types of beings, one is contingent and the other one is necessarey being. Theists usually say if there ...
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What is the Theistic response for claiming something other than God is necessary?
In the Argument of Contingency and Leibnizian Cosmological Argument, it is said that there is two types of beings which are necessary and contingent. Some argue that some necessary state can be an ...
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Are the concepts of omniscience and omnipotence contradictory? [duplicate]
Theistic religions believe in a God or Gods.
Do religions that claim their God is omniscient and omnipotent face a contradiction in this conception?
I'll explain my reasoning.
If God is omniscient, he ...
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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
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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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