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Introduction
Introduction (Part 2) – Who Argues About The Existence of God And What Are Their Views?
SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION: THEISTS WHO BELIEVED IN LAWS OF NATURE In the1600s and 1700s, the “scientific revolution,” resulted in an explosion of discoveries as compared to the rest of history. An age of scientific discovery has continued since the time of Kepler, Galileo...
Moral Argument For God
Moral Argument (Part 4): Is Morality Subjective, Varying By Culture And Individual?
Angelina Jolie:"There doesn't need to be a God for me. There's something in people that's spiritual, that's godlike." MORAL RELATIVISM “Moral relativism” is a type of atheism that says:“Morals exist, but they’re entirely subjective (can vary by culture and by...
Moral Argument (Part 5): Does Attributing Morality To A “Struggle For Survival” Mean Those Moral Values Are Not Objectively True?
SOCIO-BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION “Socio-biological evolution” is not a different perspective on morality because it’s actually an extension of naturalism. Rather, it’s a tool that atheists frequently use to argue against premise 2 of the moral argument for God, which says,...
Moral Argument (Part 6): How Does God Have Anything To Do With The Moral Sense We Find In Humanity?
GOD EXISTS The moral argument says:1. If God does not exist, objective moral values and duties do not exist.2. Objective moral values and duties exist.Conclusion: Therefore, God exists. In our previous blog posts on the moral argument, we believe we've adequately...
Beginning Of The Universe
Beginning (Part 4) – Is Entropy Further Evidence Of A Beginning?
THE LAW OF ENTROPY (also called the Second Law of Thermodynamics) Astronomer and physicist Sir Arthur Eddington: "The second law of thermodynamics [law of entropy] holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature . . . if your theory is found to be...
Beginning (Part 5): An Expanding Universe Cannot Be Past Eternal And Must Have A Beginning
A BIG BANG SINGULARITY Astronomer Edwin Hubble created a constant that would reflect the “rate or expansion” of the universe. If we play that movie of the universe’s expansion in reverse, it takes us back to a beginning when the original big bang actually occurred,...
Beginning (Part 6): The Kalam Argument For God’s Existence
TERMS “Cosmology” (koz-MAH-lah-jee) is a field of science that studies the origin and properties of the universe. The word “kalam” (pronounced “kuh-LAHM”) is a word that refers to medieval Islamic theology. In the 1100s AD, there was an Islamic scholar named...
Fine Tuning Of The Universe
Fine-tuning (Part 4): Is The Fine-tuning Of The Universe Due to Physical Necessity, Chance or Design?
THE FINE-TUNING ARGUMENT Premise 1: The fine-tuning of the universe is due to either physical necessity, chance or design. Premise 2: The fine-tuning is not due to physical necessity or chance. Conclusion: Therefore, it is due to design. FINE TUNING In our last blog,...
Fine-tuning (Part 5): Can The Anthropic Principle And Multiverse Hypothesis Save Chance Theory?
THE FINE-TUNING ARGUMENT We began by presenting this argument: Premise 1: The fine-tuning of the universe is due to either physical necessity, chance or design. Premise 2: The fine-tuning is not due to physical necessity or chance. Conclusion: Therefore, it is due to...
Cosmology
Cosmology (Part 4) – Leibniz’s Contingency Argument: Would It Be Impossible For This Particular Universe Not To Exist? (for those interested in philosophy/theology)
THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION G.W. Leibniz said the most important question any of us could ever ask in this life is: "Why is there something rather than nothing?" GUIDING PRINCIPLE Leibniz's Principle of Sufficient Reason: "Nothing happens without a sufficient reason."...
Cosmology (Part 5) – Leibniz’s Contingency Argument: Is It True That “Something Must Exist But No One Thing Exists Necessarily”? (for those interested in philosophy/theology)
THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION G.W. Leibniz said the most important question any of us could ever ask in this life is: “Why is there something rather than nothing?” GUIDING PRINCIPLE Leibniz’s Principle of Sufficient Reason: “Nothing happens without a sufficient reason.”...
Ontology
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Summary Of Five Arguments
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Properly Basic Belief
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Things That Don’t Make Sense
God’s “Origin”: Is The Question Of God’s Origin An Effective Argument Against His Existence?
WHAT WE’VE LEARNED SO FAR: GOD EXISTS In previous blogs we used an approach called “natural theology.” We stated that we would not use scripture as support or justification for the existence of God. Hopefully, our five arguments based on science and philosophy...
Miracles (Part 1): Was Spinoza Correct In Presupposing That The Laws Of Nature Were Immutable And Miracles Were Impossible?
REVIEW Five Reasons To Believe In God In a previous blog, we said that using natural theology’s five arguments for the existence of God we could provide five excellent reasons to believe in God: 1. God is the best explanation for the existence of objective moral...
Miracles (Part 2): Was Hume Correct In Presupposing That The Uniform Experience Of Humanity Supports The Laws Of Nature Rather Than Miracles?
INTRODUCTIONIn our last blog, we said that one of the most significant obstacles for some people to overcome is the fact that Christianity is a religion of miracles. The idea of miracles and the supernatural are a little hard to swallow for some people. Why is...
Suffering
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Existence of God
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Revelation – General
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Revelation – Special
Resurrection (Part 2): Did A Group Of Women Discover Jesus’ Empty Tomb?
SPECIAL REVELATION We previously said that the term "revelation" can be understood in its broad sense as a "communication from God" or its narrow sense as the "disclosure of something previously unknown." These few segments about Jesus' resurrection are part of what...
Resurrection (Part 3): Were There Post-mortem Appearances Of Jesus To Various Groups Of Witnesses?
SPECIAL REVELATION We previously said that the term "revelation" can be understood in its broad sense as a "communication from God" or its narrow sense as the "disclosure of something previously unknown." These few segments about Jesus' resurrection are part of what...
Resurrection (Part 4): There Was No Existing Tradition In The Jewish Culture Of That Day About An Individual Resurrection
SPECIAL REVELATION We previously said that the term "revelation" can be understood in its broad sense as a "communication from God" or its narrow sense as the "disclosure of something previously unknown." These few segments about Jesus' resurrection are part of what...
Resurrection
Resurrection (Part 4): There Was No Existing Tradition In The Jewish Culture Of That Day About An Individual Resurrection
SPECIAL REVELATION We previously said that the term "revelation" can be understood in its broad sense as a "communication from God" or its narrow sense as the "disclosure of something previously unknown." These few segments about Jesus' resurrection are part of what...
Resurrection (Part 5): What About Competing Theories That Attribute Jesus’ Resurrection To Natural Means?
SPECIAL REVELATION We previously said that the term "revelation" can be understood in its broad sense as a "communication from God" or its narrow sense as the "disclosure of something previously unknown." These few segments about Jesus' resurrection are part of what...
Bible
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Meaning
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