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 sufficie..
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 tha..
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. Ther..
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 "blasph..
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..
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..
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 purpos..
Does Science Give Us Truth?: Coherence Theory of Truth, The
A second general theory of truth that arises as part of idealism holds that truth comes from the way our various beliefs, thoughts and judgments cohere with each other. Coherence theory can be accused of leaving out exte..
Does Science Give Us Truth?: Conceptual Relativism
Conceptual relativism in many ways parallels the coherence theory of truth. The idea is that any representation of reality will always be influenced by the information available. There undoubtedly will be opposing points..
Does Science Give Us Truth?: Conflict Between Consensus Theories of Truth and Popper's Scientific Realism
Agreement in a community of scientists can also be taken as a measure of truth, a human-centered concept that Arthur Fine calls "consensus theories of truth." In looking at the shift from Sir Isaac Newton's theory of gra..