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Famous Arguments For Existence of God

• List of Arguments for Existence
• Introduction to Argument Styles
• Outline of Common Arguments

1. Telological Argument

   • Criticisms
   • Hume Criticism
   • Can Design Point to God? | Episode 1404 | Closer To Truth

2. Euthyphro_dilemma

3. Five Ways

4. Argument from Desire

5. Ontological Argument

6. Descartes Ontological Argument

   • Refutation

7. List of Ontological Arguments

8. Ontological Argument

   • Criticisms
   • Kants Criticism
   • Godels Ontological Proof and Objections to Godel's Ontological Argument
   • Anselm's Ontological Argument and Gaunilo's Objection to the Ontological Argument
   • Debunking the Modal Ontological Argument
   • Betting on Necessity: The Modal Ontological Argument
   • Memorializing the Modal Perfection Argument

9. Problem of Hell

10. Argument from a Proper Basis

11. Argument from Poor Design

12. Theological Non Cognitivism

    • Problem of Religious Language
    • Newtons Flaming Laser Sword
    • An Assessment of Religious Language in Philosophy of Religion
    • Religious Language
    • Aquinas views on Religious Language

13. Argument from Reason

    • Anscombe Debate about Naturalism
    • DEBATE: The Argument for God From Reason • Cosmic Skeptic vs Max Baker-Hytch

14. Argument from Non-Belief and Divine Hiddenness

15. Why Is There Anything At All

    • Why Anything at All? | Episode 1213 | Closer To Truth
    • Why Anything At All II? | Episode 1907 | Closer To Truth
    • What Exists? | Episode 1710 | Closer To Truth
    • What Exists II? | Episode 1906 | Closer To Truth
    • Why is There "Something" Rather than "Nothing"? | Episode 306 | Closer To Truth

16. Inconsistent Revelations

17. Pascals Wager and Atheist Wager

    • Series Refuting the Argument

18. Copleston Russell Debate

19. Omnipotence Paradox

    • How Can God Not Be Free? | Episode 1413 | Closer To Truth

20. Argument_from_consciousness

21. Lack of Empirical Proof Argument and Counterargument

22. The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss

23. Edwards Response to Aquinas

24. Craig-Dawkins

25. Sensus_divinitatis

26. Transcendental Argument for God

27. Naturalism and Evolutionary Argument Against

    • Discussion
    • Critical Appraisal
    • Does it Work?

28. Problem of Evil

    • Objections: Arguments from Moral Evil
    • Rowe’s Arguments from Evil
    • Logical Arguments from Evil and Free Will Defences
    • Epicurean_paradox
    • Evil God Challenge
    • Leibniz on the Problem of Evil
    • Théodicée
    • Is God Responsible for Evil? | Episode 1402 | Closer To Truth
    • Can God Face Up To Evil? | Episode 1009 | Closer To Truth
    • Did God Create Evil? | Episode 408 | Closer To Truth
    • Logical Problem of Evil
    • Evidential Argument of Evil
    • Suffering Evil
    • Theodicy

29. Kalam Cosmilogical Argument and Deep Analysis

    • Cosmological Argument
    • Overview
    • Critiques
    • Paul Draper Critique
    • More Problems
    • Composition Problem
    • Circular Causality
    • 11 More Problems
    • Collection of Debates
    • Collection of Discussions
    • 5 Major Problems with William Lane Craig’s Kalam Cosmological Argument (feat. James Fodor)

30. Alvin Plantingas Free Will Defense

31. Fine Tuned Universe

    • Fred Adams: Fallacies of the Argument
    • Tim Maudlin: Fallacies of the Argument
    • Luke Barnes: Fallacies in Fine-Tuning
    • Debunking the "Fine Tuning" Argument (Sean Carroll)
    • Debunking "Fine Tuning" Arguments for God
    • Discussing the Fine-Tuning Argument
    • Leonard Susskind - Is the Universe Fine-Tuned for Life and Mind?
    • What's Fine-Tuning in Physics? | Episode 1903 | Closer To Truth

32. Argument From Morality

    • Moral Arguments
    • Empirical Critique
    • More Criticisms

33. Argument from Degree

34. Watchmaker Analogy and Refutation

35. Anthropic Principle and Refutation

36. Best of All Possible Worlds

37. Philosophical Zombie

38. Transcendental_argument For God

    • Transcendental_arguments In General
    • Critique of All of them
    • General Form
    • Debate with Matt Slick
    • Another Debate
    • Short Explanation

39. Stephen Fry & Jordan Peterson on Morality

40. God of the Gaps

41. Unmoved Mover

42. A Divine Conceptualist Argument for God’s Existence

    • Do Divine Conceptualist Accounts Fail?
    • Beyond the Control of God?: Six Views on the Problem of God and Abstract Objects

43. Divine Command & Resources

    • Epistemological Objection
    • Critique of Grabers Divine Command Theory

44. Unactualized Actualizer and Critique

    • Discussion
    • Flawed Logic of Feser
    • Defense
    • Graham Oppy vs. Ed Feser
    • Are There Any Good Arguments for God? Ed Feser vs Graham Oppy
    • Stage One of the Aristotelian Proof: Critical Appraisal
    • On Stage One of Fesers "Aristotelian Proof"
    • Harrison Jennings on Act and Potency
    • Feser on Schmid on the Aristotelian Proof
    • Majesty of Reason Critiques:
      • Part 1
      • Part 2
      • Part 3
      • Part 4
      • Part 5
      • Part 6
      • Part 7

45. Arguments from DNA and Critiques

    • Origin of the Genetic Code: What we do and do not know
    • Signalling Systems
    • The Linguistics of DNA: Words, Sentences, Grammar, Phonetics, and Semantics

46. Why the “Existence” of Logic Can’t Prove God

47. Argument from Miracles

    • Humes Refutation
    • Wittgensteins Perspective
    • Epistemic Theory of Miracles
    • Miracles and Anomalies: Or, Your Religion is False

48. Consciousness regained? Philosophical arguments for and against reductive physicalism

49. Cumulative_case_argument

    • Criticism

50. Anthropic Principle

    • Is the Anthropic Principle Significant? | Episode 1904 | Closer To Truth

51. Arguing God from Consciousness | Episode 804 | Closer To Truth

52. Arguing God from Being | Episode 807 | Closer To Truth

53. Arguing God from Miracles & Revelations | Episode 704 | Closer To Truth

54. Arguing God from Morality | Episode 202 | Closer To Truth

55. Arguing God from Natural Theology? | Episode 601 | Closer To Truth

56. Arguments for Atheism? | Episode 211 | Closer To Truth

57. Does God Exist? Many Proofs

58. Arguments Against

    • Dan Barker: Best arguments against religion/faith #1
    • Dan Barker: Best arguments against religion/faith #2
    • Dan Barker: Best arguments against religion/faith #3
    • Dan Barker: Best arguments against religion/faith #4
    • Dan Barker: Best arguments against religion/faith #5

59. Principle_of_sufficient_reason

    • On the Fourfold Root of the Principle of Sufficient Reason
    • Two Criticisms
    • How to Refute
    • Discussion
    • Hume Critique

60. Arguing God from Design | Episode 109 | Closer To Truth

61. Argument from Free Will

62. Absence of Good

63. Non Standard Arguments for Existence and Critical Questions

64. Reasons not to Believe

65. Debunking Arguments Against Theistic Belief

66. Historicity Argument: Problem of Instruction

67. Arguments for God Tier List

68. Goldstein: 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

69. 500 Arguments Against Christianity

70. Practical Arguments for Belief

71. Salvation in Heaven

72. Russells Teapot

    • Argument from Ignorance
    • Evidence of Absense

73. Irreducible Complexity

    • Refutation of Behe
    • Evidence for Intelligent Design
    • More Refutations
    • More Problems
    • Argument from BioLogos
    • Argument from Biologival Information
    • Rejections of Informational Concepts
    • Rare Earth Hypothesis

74. Lewis Trilemma

    • Refutation
    • Muslim Examination
    • Lord Liar or Lunatic

75. Incinerating Presuppositionalism

    • Presuppositional_apologetics