Questions tagged [existence-of-god]
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What exactly would count as a "positively meaningful and reciprocal conscious relationship" between a person and a God?
I would like to start quoting this answer's summary of the divine hiddenness argument:
This is the crux of the atheistic Argument from Divine
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(1) Necessarily, if God exists, then God ...
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Can the ultimate explanation of everything really be God even if He exists? [closed]
I was pondering about the explanatory power of God and was wondering about whether, even if God exists, He is doing any fundamental explanatory work.
Suppose that the universe is caused by God. If He ...
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Does god have freewill and if so did can 'it' choose to be god? [closed]
From my (admittedly not very comprehensive) understanding of determinism in a physical universe, it seems like the only free agent outside of our causal universe could be argued to be god (assuming a ...
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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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What is the difference between necessary and in need of no explanation? [closed]
In a paper titled Is our existence in need of further explanation, Carlson argues that our universe, even if fine tuned, and even if granted to have a meaningfully very low probability, does not need ...
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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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Can god be physical? [closed]
If god is completely non physical without any physical embodiment, it is hard to imagine how he can cause a physical effect. The only notions of non physical causes is our human consciousness arguably....
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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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If God is an immaterial being, is it impossible for Him to exist?
Most people, even atheists, often at least recognize the possibility that God may exist but claim that it is very improbable.
But if God is defined as an immaterial being, is the notion of that even ...
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Could God be a Gödelian sentence?
first of all I must specify that I am a mathematician so I hope I am using the appropriate words to formulate my question.
Recently, while talking with some colleagues, a question arose; Based on the ...
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How can one refute this argument that claims to do away with omniscience as a divine attribute?
Definition of omniscience: X is omniscient = for the whole preposition P, X knows the value of P.
Let T be the set of all true propositions. An omniscient being knows all these propositions (T).
Let ...
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Does probability require a beginning? Can it apply to eternal things like god?
When it comes to the probability of something coming into fruition, a number is calculated based upon the future. The probability of a dice landing on 6 means that if one were to roll a dice in the ...
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How can God exist but allow such suffering and inequality? [duplicate]
I know this question may be have been asked innumerable times over the last 4,000 years but I'm curious to see how serious theists reconcile God's existence with the horrible suffering that a very ...
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What is the best/most convincing objection to the Ontological Argument?
In A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell says (p. 568)
Kant countered this argument by maintaining that “existence” is not a
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Can we critique Ontological Arguments by attacking their usage of the mind/language only?
Couldn’t we critique Ontological Arguments’ compatibility with the concept of God by suggesting that an omnipotent being should be able to be proved by something outside of the mind, or something ...
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What speaks against the "every creation has a creator" proof of god?
I'll preface this by saying that I am not at all with philosophy and I lack most basics.
I've seen many people say that (1) every creation has creator and thus a god has to exist and (2) that there ...
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Does Omnipotence of God imply nonexistence of physical laws
I have already asked a similar question about omniscience of God implying determinism. I was corrected by people that this is actually fatalism and that there are different forms of omniscience.
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Does existence of omniscient God imply Determinism?
I have a question about an argument for why the world must be completely deterministic if there is an omniscient God and wanted to know about the validity of the argument.
If the premise is that God ...
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Do all design arguments for god ultimately suffer from circularity?
The design argument when it comes to the adaptations that organisms have stems from “These features look like something God would want to design and seem improbable under naturalism” to “God must have ...
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Justifying God's existence by our existence
I have a friend that claims to be theist because they exist and it's extremely unlikely for them (and the Universe, their experience of life, etc.) to exist. They say that it would be simpler (for ...
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Is this a way to solve to Russell's/"liar paradox"? [closed]
So only liar paradox
Liar said: Im liar
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lie is existing ...
as Gödel sad you can't fix paradox in it's own space, so you need a protospace.obviously.
Okey, lets talk about what is a lie....
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Is Andalusi/Rasmussen's proof for the existence of God correct?
Summary of his argument:
Every limited thing's existence has a cause.
The universe is limited.
Therefore, the universe's existence must have a cause.
Now, naturally, the question arises: what caused ...
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Does the notion of creation-from-nothingness presuppose the notion of existence-as-a-predicate?
Presupposition of the question. The question, "Does X exist?" is either trivial or empty. On the one hand, as Hume said one time, it seems as if in thinking of something, I always think of ...
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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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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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Is there any ackonowledgement and solution for the objection raised on ontological argument using problem of evil?
Ontological Argument, in its initial verison as presented by Anselm of Canterbury is as follows,
The first ontological argument in Western Christian tradition[i] was
proposed by Saint Anselm of ...
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Question about the Thomistic view of God's attributes
According to Thomism, God's essence must be identical with his attributes, lest God has real attributes he is dependent upon for his being and "compose" his essence, compromising God's ...
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Why is the universe too big for us to explore? [closed]
It almost seems like a cruel joke that the universe would birth creatures with extremely curious minds and a sense of exploration and make the distances between stars too far for reasonable ...
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Is it a contradiction to believe God is both transcendent and omnipresent?
From a classical theistic perspective, God both transcends time and space, yet is also present everywhere. But how can God be both outside time and space and yet be present everywhere?
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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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Why does God have the property of Goodness?
Consider the following premise.
Every existing thing has an explanation of its existence (either in the necessity of its own nature or in an external cause).
God is sometimes viewed as existing by His ...
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Does Actus Purus (pure act) necessitate that God is his attributes / God has no real attributes
If Actus Purus is true, does this mean that God is his attributes (his essence is identical to his attributes) or that God has no real attributes (simply virtually predications of the one essence). If ...
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How can an omnipotent god ever find out that he is omnipotent? Isn't it logically impossible for him to understand?
Let us assume that an omnipotent god exists. He by definition can do anything that is logically possible. So if it is logically possible to prove that a being is omnipotent then an omnipotent god can ...
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How sound is the Avicennian argument from Contingency?
There are numerous variations of the argument from contingency that that are postulated in apologetics and philosophical speculation, however I stumbled upon an argument that is ascribed to my ...
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Isn't it obvious that there is life outside earth? [closed]
Earth is a tiny speck in the Universe.
Suppose God created life on earth.
Isn't it obvious that there is life outside earth ?
I mean, who will create such a vast universe and then such a fantastic ...
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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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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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Is the claim that a non conscious entity cannot create a conscious entity valid?
In a debate I watched online, the theist person claimed that conscious creatures, such as humans, can only be created by a conscious being, because a non conscious being isn't able to give this ...
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