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...
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?: Matter of Faith, A
Ordinary devotional experiences guide most people of faith. But those who have mystical experiences find that analytical discussions are beside the point. As William James said, "feeling is the deeper source of religion, and that philosophic and the...
Does God Exist?: William Paley and the Design Proof
The teleological or design argument proposes that the intricate order of the cosmos shows that a God designed it with a purpose in mind. William Paley uses the analogy of a watch to argue that a highly ordered and purposeful world of nature could no...
Does God Exist?: God's Existence and Darwinian Evolution
Darwin's theory of evolution contends that through a process of natural selection organisms that can adapt survive; the rest perish. What was thought to be the work of a Supreme Being is now an evolutionary process. There is a difference between ord...
Does God Exist?: St. Anselm's Ontological Proof of God's Existence
Why does the world exist? Why do we exist? Does God exist? Timeless questions. In the Middle Ages, Saint Anselm argues that the existence of God can be deduced from the fact that God is the most perfect conceivable being. His ontological proof as it...
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 ...
Does God Exist?: Sense of the Sacred, A
To some, it is the incredibly rich complexity of the world rather than carefully crafted philosophical arguments that promotes belief in the existence of a God who brought all this about. It is an existential response to the experience of the world....