Richard Dawkins And John Lennox: Buried God

Later, Leibniz, a foundational rational metaphysicist of the Enlightenment and influential thinker, stated that “everything that exists has a sufficient reason for its existence” (Enlightenment). This statement is known as the Kalam Cosmological Argument, which explains the existence of God and the universe. Many scientists of this time, including Isaac Newton and Leibniz, used science to defend their claims of a deity. At this time, this was somewhat unheard of since science and religion were typically kept in separate lanes. But this brought on controversy as Leibniz and Newton did not agree.

He writes, "it is completely unrealistic to claim, as Gould and many others do, that religion keeps itself away from science's turf, restricting itself to morals and values. A universe with a supernatural presence would be a fundamentally and qualitatively different kind of universe from one without. The difference is, inescapably, a scientific difference. Religions make existence claims, and this means scientific claims. "Gould's and theists who believe in evolution arguement could be pragmatical,

This being is what we call “God”” (Leib slide 2). I believe that Ockham’s Razor cannot be pitted against this argument because the Razor already explains that the belief of one supreme being is a lot simpler than the belief of many. Anslem’s argument is trying to prove the existence of “one” supreme being, which already complies with Ockham’s Razor. Aquinas’s Cosmological Argument of God’s existence on the other hand is way too complex. He states that efficient causes are the reason for God’s existence.

He discusses the possibility of this occurring through natural theology, or contemplation, but decides that this is not possible due to the “ignorance and stupidity of the people” (sec. 6, pg. 29, para 1). He continues on to refute other possible explanations, before concluding that it occurs as a natural result of the flattery system; humans place one God above all others and say that he is omnipresent and infinite (sec. 6, pg.

Christina Malkoun REG 213 Dr. Jerome Daher Science and Religion Man’s attempt to understand the universe resulted in the foundation of science and religion. Science and religion have both influenced lives all throughout history. Societies, technologies and ethics all developed because of scientific discoveries and religious teachings. Science and religion debated about the origin of the universe, the meaning of life, the occurrences of phenomena, and gave different answers. Science depends on the scientific method to obtain accurate results, whereas, religion is a collection of miracles and myths.

Anselm provided the first ontological argument for the God’s existence. Ryan stringer defends two type of argument from completion against the existence of God. The first ones are inductile and thus present disbelief as a tentative conclusion, while the second one is separating and thus purports to lastly show separating based on the logical

Many important forerunners of Science were Christians, and they viewed their works as their way of understanding the mind of God. Unlike my previous view that Science and Christianity are in conflict with each other, I realized that in many subtle ways Science continues to reflect Christianity. Going back to Johaness Kepler, he was an “unorthodox” Lutheran. His strong theological convictions made him to find a connection between the physical and the spiritual things. His “scientific discoveries” led him to believe that he discovered God’s geometrical plan for the universe.

This is why the philosopher believes that non-existence is preferable. Even animals are in a better condition than us, because their suffering is not exacerbated by ambition and reflection. In the last third of this essay, Schopenhauer presents his thoughts on the origin and organization of our world as explained by Hinduism, Buddhism, the ancient Greeks, Judaism, and Christianity. This is where I found several factual flaws, and at the same time several surprisingly Biblical claims in Schopenhauer’s arguments. He begins by denouncing Judaism, saying that an all-benevolent God would not create a world full of misery.

As an atheist, he gives reasons why all religion is false, especially in regard to miracles. He believed that miracles work against the natural order of things and human testimony of miracles cannot be true. Hume first reasons why we should not believe in miracles are that they are violations of the

How can you best describe the so-called problem of evil? The problem with evil is an argument that is meant to prove that God does not exist or it is more likely than not that God does not exist. Ernest Nagel believes that one of the most important characteristics of atheists is the belief that, “there are no good reason to believe that god exists” (Velasquez, 2014p.260) based on the existence of evil in the world. David Hume’s argument on the problem with evil is that man can only know what he has experienced so if we take the idea of such a god out of our minds and then were forced to look at our world we would never have reason to believe that a, “supreme, intelligence, benevolent, powerful god exists”. Hume’s expresses this argument in two different ways one is a deductive argument called the, “logical problem with evil which shows that god necessarily does not exist” (Velasquez, 2014p.262).

Throughout history there have been many scholars and theologians that pick a side to this ongoing theological debate which is why throughout history the general consensus has swapped back and forth between the two sides. This paper will explain how the young-earth creationism theory is upheld and supported with scientific facts and Biblical scriptures. After old-earth creationism gained momentum in the late 19th century and early 20th century, young-earth creationism was revamped by something called flood theology. The individual who spearheaded flood theology was a man named Geoge McCready Price. Ronald L. Numbers, The Creationists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism (Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1993), xi.