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Belief in the existence of god is theism, the conviction that no such being exists is atheism, the view there is no conclusive evidence to decide wether god exists or not is agnosticism, an identification of god with the physical universe is pantheism, the belief that god is within everything (but not simply identified with the physical universe) is panentheism, the idea of an external designer God who created the world, but is not immanent within it, is deism.
Everything has a cause, every cause it self has a cause, but you cannot have an infinite number if causes, therefore there must be an uncaused cause, which casues everything to happen without itself being caused by anything else. Such an uncaused cause is what people understand by god.
All the parts of your body work together. If you had no lungs, you could not breathe, and the rest of your bady would fail for lack of oxygen. Does this imply a careful designer?
Everything is as it is
If anything were different, everything would be different
Everything contributes to everything else
If everything else were different, everything would contribute differently.
Therefore an argument from design works only in retrospect.
The cosmological and design arguments suggest that there are features of the world which lead the mind to that which goes beyond experiance: What is the cause of everything? Why is the world as it is?
The moral argument suggests that we all have an intuition of god (along with freedom and immortality) every tim we experiance a sense of abolute moral obligation
Even if these arguments are not conclusive, they do indicate the sort of thing a religious person is thinking about when he or she uses the word 'god'
Everything has a cause, every cause it self has a cause, but you cannot have an infinite number if causes, therefore there must be an uncaused cause, which casues everything to happen without itself being caused by anything else. Such an uncaused cause is what people understand by god.
All the parts of your body work together. If you had no lungs, you could not breathe, and the rest of your bady would fail for lack of oxygen. Does this imply a careful designer?
Everything is as it is
If anything were different, everything would be different
Everything contributes to everything else
If everything else were different, everything would contribute differently.
Therefore an argument from design works only in retrospect.
The cosmological and design arguments suggest that there are features of the world which lead the mind to that which goes beyond experiance: What is the cause of everything? Why is the world as it is?
The moral argument suggests that we all have an intuition of god (along with freedom and immortality) every tim we experiance a sense of abolute moral obligation
Even if these arguments are not conclusive, they do indicate the sort of thing a religious person is thinking about when he or she uses the word 'god'
