The Validity of the Cosmological, Ontological, and Teleological Arguements
Date Submitted: 12/19/2000 03:12:45
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 5 pages (1311 words)
Category: / Social Sciences / Philosophy
Length: 5 pages (1311 words)
The topic I will be discussing in this essay is whether or not the ontological, the cosmological, or the teleological arguements provide sufficient evidence to prove the existence of the Supreme Personal Being. All three arguements have points for and against them, but whether they prove the existence of God (from here on out taken to mean the Supreme Personal Being) or not remains still to be a topic of debate.
The weakest of the …
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…a "concious intelligence". "that is, if the necessary being is the sustaining cause of things, and if what is sustained maifests puposive design, it is reasonable to infer that this sustaining cause is a concious being that acts purposefully in the world."7
1. Reason & religious Belief , Michael Peterson et al., pg 88
2. Peterson et al., pg 91
3. Peterson et al., pg 91
4. Peterson et al., pg 100
5. Peterson et al., pg 102
6. Peterson et al., pg 103
7. Peterson et al., pg 106
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