God is by definition a perfect being. It is more perfect to exist than to not exist. Therefore, God exists. Just given these simple ideas, a few axioms, and a fondness for pushing around abstract ...

Anselm of Canterbury was a theologian and philosopher from the 11th and 12th centuries who came up with a rather ingenious argument for the existence of God, which is usually called the ontological ...

Assuming S₅, the main controversial premise in modal ontological arguments is the possibility premise, such as that possibly a maximally great being exists. I shall offer a new way of arguing that the ...

Inductive proofs; the concept of ‘a posteriori’. Cosmological argument: St Thomas Aquinas’ first Three Ways – (motion or change; cause and effect; contingency and necessity). The Kalam cosmological ...

The current spate of atheist, antitheist and antireligious books has made me ask myself whether I ought to be working, strictly pro bono, for the defense. Fortunately there are a host of reasonable ...

The Argument from Design purports to demonstrate the existence of God by citing as evidence the appearance of design or purpose in the natural world. This argument differs from the others we have ...

1. L'argument ontologique n'a pas cessé d'être d'actualité. — 2. Le problème des relations entre la foi et la raison chez saint Anselme peut être résolu par le recours à un rationalisme modéré, qui ...

Our first concern will be Richard Dawkins’s efforts to refute standard arguments for theism. These efforts suffer from a variety of logical mistakes. His critique of the cosmological argument confuses ...

It is generally accepted that there exist two main categories of addiction, namely chemical addiction (e.g., addiction to drugs) and behavioral addiction (e.g., addiction to mobile phones or social ...