Does God Exist?: Does the Big Bang Prove or Disprove the Existence of God?
The Big Bang Theory is the dominant scientific theory about the origin of the universe. According to the Big Bang, the universe was created sometime between 10 billion and 20 billion years ago from a cosmic explosion that hurled matter in all direct...
Is Time Real?: Would Newton and Einstein Have Agreed?
Not everyone agrees that relativity dismisses absolute time and therefore Newton's theories are accurate as far as they go. The way we measure time, however, has certainly been affected by 20th century physics, as in the so-called twins effect. Cont...
Is Time Real?: Contrasting Perspectives on Time
J.M.E. McTaggart considered time unreal. "Past, present, and future," he said," are incompatible determinations.... No event can be more than one." Does the present enjoy privileged status in terms of its reality, or is it a subjective illusion of h...
Can We Know God Through Experience?: Divine Experience or Illusion?
It is useful to keep in mind that mystics are self conscious about the possibility of self deception. Saint Teresa was convinced that experiences which genuinely produce love cannot be deceptions. As William Craig reveals in relation to his own expe...
Can We Know God Through Experience?: Will to Believe, The
Nineteenth century philosopher William James does not advocate ignoring evidence, but he does suggest three conditions in which you should believe even though there is not sufficient proof: when it is a forced option, there is no other choice;when i...
Can We Know God Through Experience?: Extrovertive and Introvertive Mystical Experiences
The highest form of mystical experience seems to be one in which there is a sense of flowing together and becoming one with God. In an extrovertive mystical experience the world around us is transfigured and transformed. But in an introvertive exper...
Does God Exist?: Cosmological Proof for God's Existence by St. Thomas Aquinas
In his Summa Theological, Saint Thomas Aquinas offers five proofs to justify God's existence. One, the cosmological proof, results from the study of the universe. It attempts to prove that there must be either a sufficient reason, some prefer the te...
Does God Exist?: Problem of Evil and God's Existence, The
A question that haunts many people is how can evil exist in a world where an all-perfect, all-powerful Being also resides? Seven eminent scholars share a thoughtful range of responses to this question, from it is "blasphemous to suppose that we can ...