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The Atheist Voice | Friendly Atheist | Hemant Mehta
The Atheist Voice | Friendly Atheist | Hemant Mehta
How Can I Know God Exists?
Personal Experience
Barb Dudly
I have had a personal experience with God/Jesus and so I believe it!
greatest of all personal arguments
weakest of all personal arguments
how can we argue with billions of people all over the world / through time who claim the reality of a deity?
Moses | Israel | Prophets | Patriarches | etc…
Apostles - after Jesus resurrection!!
Ontological Argument
The study of being (Ontology)
The ontological argument is an argument based not on observation of the world (like the cosmological and teleological arguments) but rather on reason alone.
St. Anselm 11th cent.
AD.
God = “a being than which no greater can be conceived”
“to be or not to be”… William Shakespeare | Hamlet
existance is possible
existance > non-existance
God must exist
3 reasons why unpopular today…
begs question of what God is like
subjective appeal is low for non-believers and these tend to lack objective support
it is difficult to simply state that something exists by definition, without the philosophical support as to why…
Teleological Argument
Telos = purpose / goal
One of the most popular arguments today…
The idea is that it takes a "purposer" to have purpose, and so, where we see things obviously intended for a purpose, we can assume that those things were made for a reason.
design implies designer!
grand canyon / Mt.
Rushmore
wristwatch… on the beach
no scientific field is design considered spontaneous
universe by design!
…
DNA
Life on Earth
Single Celled Organism
Evolution
The odds of a single protein molecule forming by chance is 1 in 10243 (that is a 1 followed by 243 zeros).
A single cell is comprised of millions of protein molecules.
The odds of a single protein molecule forming by chance is 1 in 10243 (that is a 1 followed by 243 zeros).
A single cell is comprised of millions of protein molecules.
Intelligent Design = God
Job 38ff
Cosmological Argument
attempts to prove God by observing the world around us (the cosmos)
Plato
vertical
horizontal
Horizontal = Things Exist
“I think therefore I am”… Rene Descartes | 1637
Tree = Apple tree - apple seed - apple - apple tree - apple seed - apple…
Universe = had a beginning = must have had a cause?
some things cause other things… dominos....
no infinite series = all series finite (limited)
all series have two ends |---------------------------|
one ended stick!! |----------------------------->
No first cause… no chain reaction… therefore God!
Vertical = Things exist
is existence a property something inherently possesses in itself?
triangle | unicorn
triangle = a plane figure with three straight sides and three angles
definition - not include / existence
unicorn defined - non existence!
tiangle caused by something else...
existence outside of self!!
something that does not need to be given existence must exist to give existence to everything else.
Application = to everything in the universe… anything have existence as its nature?
not only does the universe need a first cause to begin but needs a current cause to sustain!!
The only thing that would not have to be given existence is a thing that exists as its very nature.
It is existence.
This something would always exist, have no cause, have no beginning, have no limit, be outside of time, and be infinite.
That something is God!
Teleological Argument
Telos = purpose / goal
The idea is that it takes a "purposer" to have purpose, and so, where we see things obviously intended for a purpose, we can assume that those things were made for a reason.
design implies designer!
grand canyon / Mt.
Rushmore
wristwatch… on the beach
no scientific field is design considered spontaneous
universe by design!
…
DNA
Life on Earth
Single Celled Organism
Evolution
Intelligent Design = God
Ontological Argument
The study of being (Ontology)
The ontological argument is an argument based not on observation of the world (like the cosmological and teleological arguments) but rather on reason alone.
The ontological argument is an argument based not on observation of the world (like the cosmological and teleological arguments) but rather on reason alone.
St. Anselm 11th cent.
AD.
God = “a being than which no greater can be conceived”
existance is possible
existance > non-existance
God must exist
Moral Argument
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