Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Arguments for existence of God
- COSMOLOGICAL
- argument that everything must have been started off
- 'caused' by something else
- causation
- Cause and effect
- everything that happens (effect)
must have had something that made
it happen (cause)
- nothing happens by
itself. everything
needs a cause.
- Therefore the
universe must have
a cause
- Only God could have caused the
universe to come about.
- Therefore there must be a God.
- TELEOLOGICAL
- design
- Idea things with a function or purpose must have been created for that purpose.
- WILLIAM PALEY
- philosopher
- watch theory
- everything needs a designer
- to design something takes
intelligence and thought
- universe shows evidence of design (DNA)
- Therefore a Being with intelligence/thought must have designed it
- Only God could do this.