diff --git a/course_outline/course15-Religious Studies/arguments_for_existence/README.md b/course_outline/course15-Religious Studies/arguments_for_existence/README.md index 0ba8ae6..06486cc 100644 --- a/course_outline/course15-Religious Studies/arguments_for_existence/README.md +++ b/course_outline/course15-Religious Studies/arguments_for_existence/README.md @@ -1,6 +1,8 @@ # [Various](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existence_of_God) [Arguments](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Arguments_against_the_existence_of_God) For [Existence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Arguments_for_the_existence_of_God) of God - [Over 100 Arguments for God ANSWERED](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP0Mh42jvV4) +- [500 Arguments Against Christianity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anc_puK9arE) +- [Jonathon MS Pearce: 30 Arguments Against God](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq3dh__o7S0p_jnG5aHBB8Dn6yHxUe_mb) - [Philosophy of Religion online Textbook](https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/phil_of_religion_text/TABLE_of_CONTENTS.htm) - [Bad Apologetics: Digital Gnosis](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLggkCqSR7N1eq3UGURGKs9hcJNV-uIn4n&si=v0D2GmppggbPFf7P) - [Bad Apologetics: James Fodor](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFQW0yCmiRVM7bBTOZ5kgjMugp-aTZmUU&si=ULnMnGB3EO2MaSQ4) @@ -17,12 +19,13 @@ * [Hume Criticism](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g39SOnVM1tw) * [Can Design Point to God? | Episode 1404 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8uQofwylkGs) * [Arguing God from Design | Episode 109 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTuIoiDm7Rw) + * [Watchmaker Analogy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmaker_analogy) and [Refutation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHmjHMbkOUM) -5. [Euthyphro_dilemma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma) - * [Episode 18, Jeremy Koons, On the Euthyphro Dilemma](https://youtu.be/sPMrIlxN0A4?si=dkhgJeDGa9nviJpd) +5. [An atheological argument from evil natural laws](https://philpapers.org/rec/SMIAAA-3) 6. [Five Ways](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five_Ways_(Aquinas)) * [Unmoved Mover](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unmoved_mover) + * [Argument from Degree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_degree) 7. [Argument from Desire](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_desire) @@ -45,7 +48,7 @@ * [One Hell of a Problem w/ @Real Atheology & @Counter Apologist](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCBD7q5FNe0&t=247s) * [The Argument from Hell](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6M9lJ0vrA7G8-No--9MAdNgJmAGiIXjh) -10. [Argument from a Proper Basis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_a_proper_basis) +10. [PZ Myers - The Evolution of Creationism](https://youtu.be/ruBjWkVKyRo?si=KQJjFo91xoNMH5bs) 11. [Argument from Poor Design](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_poor_design) @@ -81,11 +84,13 @@ * [Why is There "Something" Rather than "Nothing"? | Episode 306 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfmewf2DoKU) 16. [Inconsistent Revelations](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_inconsistent_revelations) + * [Argument from Locality](https://religions.wiki/index.php/Argument_from_locality) 17. [Pascals Wager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal%27s_wager) and [Atheist Wager](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atheist%27s_Wager) * [Series Refuting the Argument](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4Dm1HWJhoo&list=PLMd8xj-C1CsNqG4gRbUZqqlUuGH-QVS8B) + * [Practical Arguments for Belief](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatic-belief-god/) -18. [Copleston Russell Debate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copleston%E2%80%93Russell_debate) +18. [Phil Halper and Ken Williford, on Animal Suffering](https://youtu.be/OG_QOFLEizo?si=DPgmaVgbVAa77M7m) 19. [Omnipotence Paradox](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omnipotence_paradox) * [How Can God Not Be Free? | Episode 1413 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrHgHnrQLGw) @@ -97,22 +102,21 @@ * [Consciousness regained? Philosophical arguments for and against reductive physicalism](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3341650/) * [Arguing God from Consciousness | Episode 804 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdDhssz94EI) -21. [Lack of Empirical Proof Argument](http://christiancadre.blogspot.com/2019/03/why-there-is-no-empirical-proof-that.html) and [Counterargument](https://theskepticzone.blogspot.com/2016/10/hinmans-argument-from-god-corrolate.html) +21. [Lack of Empirical Proof Argument](http://christiancadre.blogspot.com/2019/03/why-there-is-no-empirical-proof-that.html) + * [Counterargument](https://theskepticzone.blogspot.com/2016/10/hinmans-argument-from-god-corrolate.html) -22. [The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss](https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2014/01/13/unequivocal-evidence-for-god-i-dont-think-so/) - -23. [Edwards Response to Aquinas](https://bettystoneman.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/aquinas-cosmological-argument-and-edwards-responses/) +22. [Edwards Response to Aquinas](https://bettystoneman.wordpress.com/2010/10/25/aquinas-cosmological-argument-and-edwards-responses/) * [20 Cosmological Arguments: An Analysis](https://youtu.be/EysSbVCkJLo?si=4Yqq8y1CyeTCG4Q-) -24. [Atheists of Silicon Valley](https://web.archive.org/web/20230225074059/https://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/Debate.html) +23. [Atheists of Silicon Valley](https://web.archive.org/web/20230225074059/https://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/Debate.html) * [Why Atheism?](https://web.archive.org/web/20230530214214/http://godlessgeeks.com/WhyAtheism.htm) * [Hundreds of Proofs of God’s Existence](https://web.archive.org/web/20230611011201/https://www.godlessgeeks.com/LINKS/GodProof.htm) -25. [Sensus_divinitatis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensus_divinitatis) +24. [Argument from a Proper Basis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_a_proper_basis) + * [Sensus_divinitatis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sensus_divinitatis) + * [Episode 11, Tyler McNabb, On Reformed Epistemology](https://youtu.be/LTBXYC_1x2o?si=JlKpdZTtewnJNDti) -26. [Transcendental Argument for God](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_argument_for_the_existence_of_God) - -27. [Evolutionary Argument Against](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_argument_against_naturalism) [Naturalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)) +25. [Evolutionary Argument Against](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_argument_against_naturalism) [Naturalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalism_(philosophy)) - [Discussion](https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/31401/what-are-the-problems-with-plantingas-evolutionary-argument-against-naturalism) - [Critical Appraisal](https://www.jstor.org/stable/27749994) - [Does it Work?](https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/religious-studies/article/abs/does-plantingas-evolutionary-argument-against-naturalism-work/E38C04BC3D418AF634B2830797639E08) @@ -130,7 +134,7 @@ - [In defense of sensible naturalism](https://philpapers.org/rec/DRAIDO-3) - [The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism - James Fodor vs Maverick Christian](https://youtu.be/NW-FQ3kzV30?si=rhxbRDxT8KSEgOMM) -28. [Problem](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/) of [Evil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil) +26. [Problem](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/evil/) of [Evil](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Problem_of_evil) * [Objections: Arguments from Moral Evil](https://philpapers.org/archive/OPPAFM.pdf) * [Rowe’s Arguments from Evil](https://philpapers.org/archive/OPPREA.pdf) * [Logical Arguments from Evil and Free Will Defences](https://philpapers.org/archive/OPPLPO.pdf) @@ -151,7 +155,7 @@ * [3. Graham Oppy, On Logical Problems of Evil](https://youtu.be/szPAw_R6RGA?si=Y8K6xs7jldNWyETI) * [Matt McCormick Problem of Evil](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUJ-vlKYyqzDTEvCVstkzh1RgKfa9K_7K&si=jImiVsTs0Os44KCH) -29. [Kalam Cosmilogical Argument](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalam_cosmological_argument) and [Deep Analysis](https://useofreason.wordpress.com/) +27. [Kalam Cosmilogical Argument](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalam_cosmological_argument) and [Deep Analysis](https://useofreason.wordpress.com/) * [Cosmological](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/cosmological-argument/) [Argument](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_argument) * [Overview](https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/intro_text/Chapter%203%20Religion/Cosmological.htm) * [Critiques](https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2014/11/critiquing-kalam-cosmological-argument.html) @@ -176,7 +180,7 @@ * [Hilbert's Hotel: A Comprehensive Response](https://youtu.be/wt-rEeUIcR4?si=kM-RVjuZHfECjjY4) * [The Kalam's Causal Principle: An Analysis](https://youtu.be/XslZE3luFq4?si=w49y1m2FQwQASYqg) -30. [Alvin Plantingas Free Will Defense](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Plantinga%27s_free-will_defense) +28. [Alvin Plantingas Free Will Defense](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alvin_Plantinga%27s_free-will_defense) * [Does God's Knowledge Ruin Free Will? | Episode 1312 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m246uxD_9Sw) * [Is God Totally Free? | Episode 1313 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-7t2cSvxTw) * [Can Free Will Survive God's Foreknowledge? | Episode 1412 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bEBFdTfHbg) @@ -185,7 +189,7 @@ * [The Problem of Hell: Raymond Bradley vs. William Lane Craig (Debate)](https://youtu.be/oJdlO6esWr8?si=Elk9BEMlh_PR29-E) * [Can God Condemn One to an Afterlife in Hell?](https://philpapers.org/rec/BRACGC) -31. [Fine Tuned](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe) [Universe](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fine-tuning/) +29. [Fine Tuned](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fine-tuned_universe) [Universe](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fine-tuning/) * [Fred Adams: Fallacies of the Argument](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccM0lB1qtOI&t=70s) * [Tim Maudlin: Fallacies of the Argument](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=95rtxmvZsdc) * [Luke Barnes: Fallacies in Fine-Tuning](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09XvwcjMWCg) @@ -196,7 +200,7 @@ * [What's Fine-Tuning in Physics? | Episode 1903 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UizIrcdSuuo) * [12 Design Arguments: An Analysis](https://youtu.be/_hxuKMEzDLk?si=6stXQ7VN1Oa6K3iz) -32. [Argument From Morality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_morality) +30. [Argument From Morality](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_morality) * [Moral Arguments](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/moral-arguments-god/) * [Empirical Critique](https://www.jstor.org/stable/1197397) * [More Criticisms](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Argument_from_morality) @@ -206,16 +210,11 @@ * [Moral Arguments for God: An Analysis](https://youtu.be/cFEjSzfEQrU?si=UZuPSKaOJ7LtTF44) * [Objective Morality Without God](https://youtu.be/50CQwa15R7A?si=oagU3PXsthSrjmFg) * [Why I Don't Use The Moral Argument For Theism](https://youtu.be/wiVEU6yAVZk?si=DzDaOlZLaCyP7wcq) + * [Arguing God from Morality | Episode 202 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9F-CaquPTc) -33. [Argument from Degree](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_degree) +31. [Best of All Possible Worlds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds) -34. [Watchmaker Analogy](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watchmaker_analogy) and [Refutation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHmjHMbkOUM) - -35. [Anthropic Principle](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle) and [Refutation](https://www.str.org/w/why-the-puddle-analogy-fails-against-fine-tuning) - -36. [Best of All Possible Worlds](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Best_of_all_possible_worlds) - -37. [Near Death Experience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience) +32. [Near Death Experience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near-death_experience) * [Dead as a Doornail: Can Near Death or Out of Body Experiences Prove the Existence of an Afterlife?](https://youtu.be/RaJBiRlBOKY?si=VQgXsBrakxSukRmM) * [More Near-Death Delusions and Christian Nonsense](https://www.youtube.com/live/6g6BqbAQyT0?si=i727Q8r7fsXcg9Pa) * [Dogmatic Materialists DESTROYED by AMAZING EVIDENCE of Pam Reynolds Near Death Experience Case](https://www.youtube.com/live/WEDZ2LToSWM?si=qna6E8nGf6UjPE0n) @@ -228,7 +227,7 @@ * [Hallucinatory Near-Death Experiences](https://infidels.org/library/modern/keith-augustine-hndes/) * [Lifeafterdeath Immortality](https://infidels.org/library/modern/lifeafterdeath-immortality/) -38. [Transcendental_argument For God](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_argument_for_the_existence_of_God) +33. [Transcendental_argument For God](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transcendental_argument_for_the_existence_of_God) * [Transcendental_arguments In General](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/transcendental-arguments/) * [Critique of All of them](https://philpapers.org/rec/STRTA) * [General Form](https://alexandergreenberg.github.io/pdfs/transcendental-arguments-lecture1.pdf) @@ -236,23 +235,27 @@ * [Another Debate](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb1mfKJU6bo) * [Short Explanation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrwzuXrlnxs) -39. [Stephen Fry & Jordan Peterson on Morality](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0lD3krLcK0) +34. Debates + * [Stephen Fry & Jordan Peterson on Morality](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-0lD3krLcK0) + * [Copleston Russell Debate](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copleston%E2%80%93Russell_debate) -40. [God of the Gaps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps) +35. [God of the Gaps](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_of_the_gaps) -41. The Holy Ghost +36. The Holy Ghost * [Philosophical Failures of Christian Apologetics, Part 11: The Holy Spirit](https://youtu.be/RoyFdWYgz5I?si=C_Ci2syNbyfEI52B) * [Craig on Faith and Doubt](https://youtu.be/Mh7JjeakfjI?si=TOVmDmShgt_LFBke) -42. [A Divine Conceptualist Argument for God’s Existence](https://philosophicaleggs.com/185-a-divine-conceptualist-argument-for-gods-existence/) +37. [A Divine Conceptualist Argument for God’s Existence](https://philosophicaleggs.com/185-a-divine-conceptualist-argument-for-gods-existence/) * [Do Divine Conceptualist Accounts Fail?](https://philpapers.org/rec/WELDDC) * [Beyond the Control of God?: Six Views on the Problem of God and Abstract Objects](https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/beyond-the-control-of-god-six-views-on-the-problem-of-god-and-abstract-objects/) -43. [Divine Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_command_theory) & [Resources](https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/ethics_text/chapter_7_deontological_theories_natural_law/divine_command_theory.htm) +38. [Divine Command](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_command_theory) & [Resources](https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/ethics_text/chapter_7_deontological_theories_natural_law/divine_command_theory.htm) * [Epistemological Objection](https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2014/11/the-epistemological-objection-to-divine.html) * [Critique of Grabers Divine Command Theory](https://www.jstor.org/stable/40017722) + * [Euthyphro_dilemma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euthyphro_dilemma) + * [Episode 18, Jeremy Koons, On the Euthyphro Dilemma](https://youtu.be/sPMrIlxN0A4?si=dkhgJeDGa9nviJpd) -44. [Unactualized Actualizer](https://lastedenblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/18/two-aristotelian-arguments-for-an-unactualized-actualizer/) and [Critique](https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/13752) +39. [Unactualized Actualizer](https://lastedenblog.wordpress.com/2017/12/18/two-aristotelian-arguments-for-an-unactualized-actualizer/) and [Critique](https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/13752) * [Discussion](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateAnAtheist/comments/avkc7b/can_anyone_point_out_the_flaws_in_fesers/) * [Flawed Logic of Feser](http://theskepticalzone.com/wp/flawed-logic-and-bad-mereology-why-fesers-first-two-proofs-fail/) * [Defense](http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2021/07/schmid-on-aristotelian-proof.html) @@ -272,87 +275,59 @@ - [Part 6](https://majestyofreason.wordpress.com/2019/10/17/an-appraisal-of-aquinas-first-way-on-infinity-part-6/) - [Part 7](https://majestyofreason.wordpress.com/2019/10/17/an-appraisal-of-aquinas-first-way-quantifier-shifts-and-the-gap-problem-part-7/) -45. [Arguments from DNA](https://www.biola.edu/blogs/biola-magazine/2010/can-dna-prove-the-existence-of-an-intelligent-desi) and [Critiques](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJCmerK0DjQ) +40. [Arguments from DNA](https://www.biola.edu/blogs/biola-magazine/2010/can-dna-prove-the-existence-of-an-intelligent-desi) and [Critiques](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJCmerK0DjQ) * [Origin of the Genetic Code: What we do and do not know](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8T3bN2k28_E) * [Signalling Systems](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIO0lGYt5PY&list=PLbxzvFuujtptfx5GAw19gUM4FI19oEf0o) * [The Linguistics of DNA: Words, Sentences, Grammar, Phonetics, and Semantics](https://nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb08916.x?fbclid=IwAR26nkd27TKhcb8XEoMIwDVofim5rKJ_QbAA9_rvFRip_nNrvDPf21ikIKU) -46. [Why the “Existence” of Logic Can’t Prove God](http://brianhuffling.com/2018/05/01/from-whence-does-logic-come-and-why-you-cant-use-it-to-prove-god/) - -47. [Argument from Miracles](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/miracles/) +41. [Argument from Miracles](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/miracles/) * [Humes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Of_Miracles) [Refutation](https://www3.nd.edu/~afreddos/courses/43811/hume-on-miracles.htm) * [Wittgensteins Perspective](https://iep.utm.edu/miracles/#H11) * [Epistemic Theory of Miracles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistemic_theory_of_miracles) * [Miracles and Anomalies: Or, Your Religion is False](https://entirelyuseless.com/2018/07/30/miracles-and-anomalies-or-your-religion-is-false/) * [Hume on religious self-deception](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_h0ah_WDho) * [Cameron asked about miracle claims. I answered.](https://www.youtube.com/live/bkJO8H3Unuc?si=D70ZyE3TarmkYcTU) + * [Arguing God from Miracles & Revelations | Episode 704 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmButXMCrZ4) -48. +42. [Arguments for Atheism? | Episode 211 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOi6xL93tBU) -49. [Cumulative_case_argument](https://religions.wiki/index.php/Cumulative_case_argument) +43. [Cumulative_case_argument](https://religions.wiki/index.php/Cumulative_case_argument) * [Criticism](http://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2017/05/a-cumulative-case-for-existence-of-god.html) -50. [Anthropic Principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle) - * [Is the Anthropic Principle Significant? | Episode 1904 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMV9t-3rFNs) +44. [Arguing God from Being | Episode 807 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP5KaFyem_Q) -51. +45. [Arguing God from Natural Theology? | Episode 601 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzJp-Y0WBYY) -52. [Arguing God from Being | Episode 807 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP5KaFyem_Q) +46. [Absence of Good](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absence_of_good) -53. [Arguing God from Miracles & Revelations | Episode 704 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmButXMCrZ4) - -54. [Arguing God from Morality | Episode 202 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9F-CaquPTc) - -55. [Arguing God from Natural Theology? | Episode 601 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzJp-Y0WBYY) - -56. [Arguments for Atheism? | Episode 211 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOi6xL93tBU) - -57. [Does God Exist? Many Proofs](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLpdBEstCHhmWj2Z45up6-XYzqqeqMMZMm&si=r0eIZdoR5H7PJA4h) - -58. - -59. [Principle_of_sufficient_reason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_sufficient_reason) +47. [Principle_of_sufficient_reason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_sufficient_reason) * [On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Fourfold_Root_of_the_Principle_of_Sufficient_Reason) * [Two Criticisms](https://www.jstor.org/stable/40021074) * [How to Refute](http://cogprints.org/390/1/psrcogprt.htm) * [Discussion](https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/1701/is-there-a-cogent-argument-against-the-principle-of-sufficient-reason) * [Hume Critique](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/sufficient-reason/#PSREighCentPhilGermIdea) -60. [Non Standard Arguments for Gods Existence](https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-of-religion/chapter/non-standard-arguments-for-gods-existence/) +48. [Non Standard Arguments for Gods Existence](https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-of-religion/chapter/non-standard-arguments-for-gods-existence/) * [Non Standard Arguments for Existence and Critical Questions](https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-of-religion/chapter/non-standard-arguments-for-gods-existence/) -61. [Argument from Free Will](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_free_will) +49. [Argument from Free Will](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_free_will) * [free-will-foreknowledge](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/free-will-foreknowledge/) * [Fatalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatalism) -62. [Absence of Good](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absence_of_good) - -63. - -64. [Reasons not to Believe](https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-of-religion/chapter/reasons-not-to-believe/) +50. [Reasons not to Believe](https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-of-religion/chapter/reasons-not-to-believe/) * [Debunking Arguments against Theistic Belief](https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-of-religion/chapter/debunking-arguments-against-theistic-belief/) -65. [Debunking Arguments Against Theistic Belief](https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-of-religion/chapter/debunking-arguments-against-theistic-belief/) +51. [Debunking Arguments Against Theistic Belief](https://press.rebus.community/intro-to-phil-of-religion/chapter/debunking-arguments-against-theistic-belief/) -66. [Historicity Argument: Problem of Instruction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5aZXXx3E6U) +52. [Goldstein: 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD](https://www.edge.org/conversation/rebecca_newberger_goldstein-36-arguments-for-the-existence-of-god) -67. [Arguments for God Tier List](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cpC8WtufJbo) - -68. [Goldstein: 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD](https://www.edge.org/conversation/rebecca_newberger_goldstein-36-arguments-for-the-existence-of-god) - -69. [500 Arguments Against Christianity](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Anc_puK9arE) - -70. [Practical Arguments for Belief](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/pragmatic-belief-god/) - -71. [Salvation in Heaven](https://www.ajol.info/index.php/pp/article/view/29480) +53. [Salvation in Heaven](https://www.ajol.info/index.php/pp/article/view/29480) * [Paradox of Free Will](https://sheseeksnonfiction.blog/2017/09/10/the-paradox-of-christian-free-will/) * [The Free Will Defense Refuted and God’s Existence Disproved](https://infidels.org/library/modern/raymond-bradley-fwd-refuted/) * [Some Problems of Heavenly Freedom](https://philarchive.org/rec/KITSPO-2) * [Paradox of Free Will in Heavan](https://www.reddit.com/r/DebateReligion/comments/23hwy9/the_paradox_of_free_will_in_heaven/) -72. [30 Arguments Against God](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq3dh__o7S0p_jnG5aHBB8Dn6yHxUe_mb) - -73. [Irreducible Complexity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity) +54. [Irreducible Complexity](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irreducible_complexity) - [Refutation of Behe](https://www.creative-wisdom.com/education/hps/behe.pdf) - [Evidence for Intelligent Design](https://www.discovery.org/a/sixfold-evidence-for-intelligent-design/) - [More Refutations](https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-argument-from-irreducible-complexity.html) @@ -361,17 +336,17 @@ - [Rare Earth Hypothesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rare_Earth_hypothesis) - [Complexity isn't that Complex of an Argument](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jvv5lcs27U) -74. [Lewis Trilemma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%27s_trilemma) +55. [Lewis Trilemma](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis%27s_trilemma) - [Refutation](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Lewis_Trilemma) - [Muslim Examination](https://www.call-to-monotheism.com/examining_c_s__lewis__trilemma) - [Lord Liar or Lunatic](https://www.learnreligions.com/lord-liar-or-lunatic-c-s-lewis-249782) -75. [Incinerating Presuppositionalism](http://bahnsenburner.blogspot.com/) +56. [Incinerating Presuppositionalism](http://bahnsenburner.blogspot.com/) - [Presuppositional_apologetics](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presuppositional_apologetics) - [Is God Necessary? | Episode 607 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJ1nWKbtku8) - [Presuppositionalism Destroyed Like You've Never Seen! | Dr. Alex Malpass](https://www.youtube.com/live/LyL7rMfJ7lA?si=CmCEpjp-yaECHblG) -76. [Russells Teapot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot) +57. [Russells Teapot](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell%27s_teapot) - [Several Layers of Wrong | Wise Disciple Fails to Shatter Russell's Teapot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqYBlwHDxms) - [Ad Hoc Hypothesis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hoc_hypothesis) - [Argument from Ignorance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance) @@ -380,16 +355,17 @@ - [Burden of Proof](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(philosophy)) - [Argument from Ignorance](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance) - [Evidence of Absense](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evidence_of_absence) + - [The_Dragon_in_My_Garage](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Dragon_in_My_Garage) -77. [The Ethics of Belief](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-belief/) , [The Will to Believe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Will_to_Believe) +58. [The Ethics of Belief](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-belief/) + * [The Will to Believe](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Will_to_Believe) -78. [Jesus Resurrection Critically Examined](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq3dh__o7S0oip-Xq7hSBe7oMUOE0SNyt) +59. [Jesus Resurrection Critically Examined](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLq3dh__o7S0oip-Xq7hSBe7oMUOE0SNyt) - [The Evidence for Jesus Is Worse than You Think](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGHOp-9yAbA) - [Ehrman vs Wallace - Can We Trust the Text of the NT?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRHjZCKRIu4) - [DEBATE: Bart Ehrman vs Mike Licona (Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? 2018)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qP7RrCfDkO4) -79. [The_Dragon_in_My_Garage](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/The_Dragon_in_My_Garage) -80. [Attributes_of_God_in_Christian_theology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Attributes_of_God_in_Christian_theology) +60. [Attributes_of_God_in_Christian_theology](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Attributes_of_God_in_Christian_theology) * [Divine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_simplicity) [Simplicity](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/divine-simplicity/) * [The fruitful death of modal collapse arguments](https://philpapers.org/rec/SCHTFD-5) * [The reverse ontological argument](https://philpapers.org/rec/COLTRO-54) @@ -399,13 +375,13 @@ * [modal ontological arguments](https://1000wordphilosophy.com/2021/12/03/modal-ontological-arguments/) * [Divine Simplicity, God’s Freedom, and the Supposed Problem of Modal Collapse](https://brill.com/view/journals/jrt/16/1-2/article-p127_8.xml?language=en) -81. [Why Wont God Heal Amputees](https://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com/) +61. [Why Wont God Heal Amputees](https://www.whywontgodhealamputees.com/) - [Response to Got Questions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKpFuPf4n6s) - [WOTM: Why Won't God Heal Amputees?? Part I](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fy5OHAq5EHk) - [WOTM: Why Won't God Heal Amputees?? Part II](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tseB2A9K1IU) - [Why God Won't Heal Amputees Response](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkA7IYuEdlY) -82. [Efficacy of prayer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficacy_of_prayer) +62. [Efficacy of prayer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Efficacy_of_prayer) - [Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP)](https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16569567/) - [Prayer and healing: A medical and scientific perspective on randomized controlled trials](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2802370/) - [Prayers don’t help heart surgery patients](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2006/04/prayers-dont-help-heart-surgery-patients-2/) @@ -415,15 +391,14 @@ - [Effects of oxytocin administration on spirituality and emotional responses to meditation](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5040919/) - [Meditation, Prayer and Spiritual Healing: The Evidence](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3396089/) -83. [Divine Revelation](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/divine-revelation/) +63. [Divine Revelation](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/divine-revelation/) - [Authenticity_of_divine_revelation](https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Authenticity_of_divine_revelation) -84. [Argument from Locality](https://religions.wiki/index.php/Argument_from_locality) - -85. [The Jury Is In: The Ruling on McDowell’s “Evidence”](https://infidels.org/library/modern/jeff-lowder-jury/) +64. [The Jury Is In: The Ruling on McDowell’s “Evidence”](https://infidels.org/library/modern/jeff-lowder-jury/) * [Christianity DISPROVED in Somewhat More than 5 minutes - Responding to Habermas on the Resurrection](https://www.youtube.com/live/51the05KMik?si=rICdBkezChlLhYrW) + * [Historicity Argument: Problem of Instruction](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w5aZXXx3E6U) -86. [Argument_from_religious_experience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_religious_experience) +65. [Argument_from_religious_experience](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_religious_experience) * [Religious Experience](https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religious-experience/) * [Religious Epistemology](https://iep.utm.edu/relig-ep/) * [The Argument from Religious Experience](https://philosophicaldisquisitions.blogspot.com/2021/01/the-argument-from-religious-experience.html) @@ -435,28 +410,34 @@ * [Miracles](https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/phil_of_religion_text/CHAPTER_5_ARGUMENTS_EXPERIENCE/Miracles.htm) * [Psychic Phenomena](https://www.qcc.cuny.edu/socialsciences/ppecorino/phil_of_religion_text/CHAPTER_5_ARGUMENTS_EXPERIENCE/Psychic_phenomena.htm) * [Strengths and Weaknesses](https://philosophydungeon.weebly.com/strengths--weaknesses.html) + * [The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss](https://whyevolutionistrue.com/2014/01/13/unequivocal-evidence-for-god-i-dont-think-so/) -87. [200 (or so) Arguments for Atheism](https://exapologist.blogspot.com/2023/03/200-or-so-arguments-for-atheism.html) -88. [Anthropic_principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle) +66. [200 (or so) Arguments for Atheism](https://exapologist.blogspot.com/2023/03/200-or-so-arguments-for-atheism.html) +67. [Anthropic principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle) * [Is The Anthropic Principle Significant?](https://youtu.be/NMV9t-3rFNs?si=clenObcP_V-qpDxa) * [The Problem with the "Rare Earth Hypothesis"](https://youtu.be/-CsLmoiKugE?si=zlxMIcDJ4Jbwo2O2) * [How Many "Earth-Like" Planets are there?](https://youtu.be/xEt941k2GAg?si=EpCDlRfiHGE-Do66) * [The Drake Equation after 60 Years](https://youtu.be/dM_Pelfc92s?si=StvGF-Op5kWJj8hV) * [The Birth Death Drake Equation](https://youtu.be/kliJ-CFVLeE?si=5Xs_4tdGOYxI6J_f) + * [Anthropic Principle](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle) + * [Is the Anthropic Principle Significant? | Episode 1904 | Closer To Truth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMV9t-3rFNs) + * [Anthropic Principle](https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle) and [Refutation](https://www.str.org/w/why-the-puddle-analogy-fails-against-fine-tuning) -89. [An atheological argument from evil natural laws](https://philpapers.org/rec/SMIAAA-3) -90. [psychophysical harmony](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxRhaLyXxXkaxsGfwQc4yNqqeF-WOnRSx&si=meqANkAy3-5keNM-) -91. [Phil Halper and Ken Williford, on Animal Suffering](https://youtu.be/OG_QOFLEizo?si=DPgmaVgbVAa77M7m) -92. [Episode 11, Tyler McNabb, On Reformed Epistemology](https://youtu.be/LTBXYC_1x2o?si=JlKpdZTtewnJNDti) -93. [Theological Fatalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatalism) +68. [psychophysical harmony](https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLxRhaLyXxXkaxsGfwQc4yNqqeF-WOnRSx&si=meqANkAy3-5keNM-) + +69. [Theological Fatalism](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatalism) * [Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom | Dr. Taylor Cyr and Sean Clements](https://youtu.be/2eo6ZwZ0c5U?si=8SpbEDvA0fTX0tKI) * [Is Omniscience Possible? | Dr. Josh Rasmussen](https://youtu.be/BqxR_Cs1LEg?si=grrKEVKBgxkiI7q6) * [Omniscience, Time, and Freedom](https://youtu.be/HPajfhRLGVU?si=qBhnHM3ETqa-Ss-_) -94. [PZ Myers - The Evolution of Creationism](https://youtu.be/ruBjWkVKyRo?si=KQJjFo91xoNMH5bs) -95. [The Argument for God from Logic](https://youtu.be/mX76lzXu_Jc?si=eTd7NJi-Koh6ofhb) + +70. [The Argument for God from Logic](https://youtu.be/mX76lzXu_Jc?si=eTd7NJi-Koh6ofhb) * [From Abstracta to Atheism? | Dr. Felipe Leon](https://youtu.be/8MeJAFsB8BA?si=0GysQIRC6l8iCnHA) -96. [Feser's Neo-Platonic Proof: An Analysis](https://youtu.be/BYhV5JAy48g?si=hl8ZB-aAaD-eHrPB) -97. [Addressing the New Christian Apologetics: The Embarrassing Follies of Conway and Ferrer](https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/22947) + * [Why the “Existence” of Logic Can’t Prove God](http://brianhuffling.com/2018/05/01/from-whence-does-logic-come-and-why-you-cant-use-it-to-prove-god/) +71. Ed Feser Rebuttals + * [Feser's Neo-Platonic Proof: An Analysis](https://youtu.be/BYhV5JAy48g?si=hl8ZB-aAaD-eHrPB) + * [Can We "Prove" that God Exists? | Graham Oppy vs Ed Feser](https://www.youtube.com/live/XoVDutpB4Cw?si=X2fSQZmseX5oDcvj) + * [Feser's Aristotelian Proof: An Analysis](https://youtu.be/O_DUgRWHv7U?si=gnC1ioWzhFiqqScN) +72. [Addressing the New Christian Apologetics: The Embarrassing Follies of Conway and Ferrer](https://www.richardcarrier.info/archives/22947) * [Christianity's Calculated Kindness: Unraveling The Manipulative Strategy!](https://youtu.be/zeHVJ-O9cYc?si=5UxMlDu2roXT6TN9) * [The Manipulative Nature of the Gospel Message](https://youtu.be/Hc2zOqImjQE?si=qTsbn74GkS475_xP) * [Common Manipulation Tactics Used in Christian Churches](https://youtu.be/gAiJey3d6tw?si=S4RgXztxlvWJzHA9)