critical-thinking/course_outline/course15-Religious Studies/arguments_for_existence/README.md

Various Arguments For Existence of God

• Over 100 Arguments for God ANSWERED
• 500 Arguments Against Christianity
• Jonathon MS Pearce: 30 Arguments Against God
• Philosophy of Religion online Textbook
• Bad Apologetics: Digital Gnosis
• Bad Apologetics: James Fodor
• Philosophical Failures of Christian Apologetics

1. List of Arguments for Existence

2. Introduction to Argument Styles

3. Outline of Common Arguments

4. Telological Argument

   • Criticisms
   • Hume Criticism
   • Can Design Point to God? | Episode 1404 | Closer To Truth
   • Arguing God from Design | Episode 109 | Closer To Truth
   • Watchmaker Analogy and Refutation

5. An atheological argument from evil natural laws

6. Five Ways

   • Unmoved Mover
   • Argument from Degree

7. Argument from Desire

8. List of Ontological Arguments

   • 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
   • The inconsistency in Gödel's ontological argument: a success story for AI in metaphysics
   • Descartes Ontological Argument
   • Refutation
   • A User's Guide to the Modal Ontological Argument
   • 11 Ontological Arguments: An Analysis

9. Problem of Hell

   • One Hell of a Problem w/ @Real Atheology & @Counter Apologist
   • The Argument from Hell

10. PZ Myers - The Evolution of Creationism

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
    • The Argument from Reason: C. S. Lewis’ Fundamental Mistakes
    • Richard Carrier: The Argument from Reason
    • A response to C. S. Lewis’s argument from reason

14. Argument from Non-Belief and Divine Hiddenness

    • John Schellenberg: The Hiddenness Argument and the Contribution of Philosophy (1/5)
    • John Schellenberg: The Hiddenness Argument and the Contribution of Philosophy (2/5)
    • John Schellenberg: The Hiddenness Argument and the Contribution of Philosophy (3/5
    • John Schellenberg: The Hiddenness Argument and the Contribution of Philosophy (4/5)
    • John Schellenberg: The Hiddenness Argument and the Contribution of Philosophy (5/5)
    • Nonbelief Revisited: The Ghost of Veritas48
    • Wrapping Up 'Nonbelief'
    • Divine Hiddenness: Mike Winger's Desperate Dance Around God's Disappearance
    • Divine Hiddenness Series: An Introduction to J.L. Schellenberg's Argument from Nonresistant Nonbelief

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

    • Argument from Locality

17. Pascals Wager and Atheist Wager

    • Series Refuting the Argument
    • Practical Arguments for Belief
    • Pascal's Wager | Dr. Al Hájek and Dr. Liz Jackson

18. Phil Halper and Ken Williford, on Animal Suffering

19. Omnipotence Paradox

    • How Can God Not Be Free? | Episode 1413 | Closer To Truth
    • Inconsistent Triad
    • Omniscience, Time, and Freedom

20. Argument_from_consciousness

    • Philosophical Zombie
    • Consciousness regained? Philosophical arguments for and against reductive physicalism
    • Arguing God from Consciousness | Episode 804 | Closer To Truth

21. Lack of Empirical Proof Argument

    • Counterargument

22. Edwards Response to Aquinas

    • 20 Cosmological Arguments: An Analysis

23. Atheists of Silicon Valley

    • Why Atheism?
    • Hundreds of Proofs of God’s Existence

24. Argument from a Proper Basis

    • Sensus_divinitatis
    • Episode 11, Tyler McNabb, On Reformed Epistemology

25. Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism

    • Discussion
    • Critical Appraisal
    • Does it Work?
    • What’s wrong with the evolutionary argument against naturalism?
    • The evolutionary argument against naturalism: a Wittgensteinian response
    • Does the Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism Defeat God’s Beliefs?
    • Darwin's doubt or Plantinga's conviction? Some failures in Plantinga's attempt to debunk naturalistic evolution
    • Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism refuted
    • Does Plantinga's Evolutionary Argument against Naturalism Work?
    • Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism (EAAN)
    • The troublesome explanandum in Plantinga’s argument against naturalism
    • Evolutionary Absurdity Against Naturalism
    • 4 Genealogical Debunking Arguments
    • Genealogical Debunking
    • In defense of sensible naturalism
    • The Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism - James Fodor vs Maverick Christian
    • Chatting about the Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism

26. 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
    • Best of all Possible Worlds
    • Skeptical Theism
    • Irenaean_theodicy
    • 3. Graham Oppy, On Logical Problems of Evil
    • Matt McCormick Problem of Evil

27. 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)
    • Countering the Kalam
    • ‘Mere’ Causality: Arguments, Objections, and Good Principles
    • William Lane Craig & Scott Clifton Discuss the Kalam Cosmological Argument
    • Episode 21, Scott Clifton and Wes Morriston on the Clifton-Craig debate
    • Episode 4, Wes Morriston; On the Kalam Cosmological Argument
    • No, science doesn’t show the universe began to exist | Dr. Daniel Linford
    • Kalam Cosmological Argument 2.Physicists and Philosophers strike back
    • The Kalam and Successive Addition | Dr. Wes Morriston
    • Hilbert’s Hotel and Craig’s Kalam | Dr. Alex Malpass
    • Whatever begins to exist has a cause? | Dr. Daniel Linford
    • Hilbert's Hotel: A Comprehensive Response
    • The Kalam's Causal Principle: An Analysis

28. Alvin Plantingas Free Will Defense

    • Does God's Knowledge Ruin Free Will? | Episode 1312 | Closer To Truth
    • Is God Totally Free? | Episode 1313 | Closer To Truth
    • Can Free Will Survive God's Foreknowledge? | Episode 1412 | Closer To Truth
    • If God Knows the Future, What is Free Will? | Episode 710 | Closer To Truth
    • The Free Will Defense Refuted and God’s Existence Disproved
    • The Problem of Hell: Raymond Bradley vs. William Lane Craig (Debate)
    • Can God Condemn One to an Afterlife in Hell?

29. 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
    • 12 Design Arguments: An Analysis
    • YET MORE Apologetics Nonsense about Fine-Tuning
    • The Case Against Theism - Refuting the Fine-Tuning Argument

30. Argument From Morality

    • Moral Arguments
    • Empirical Critique
    • More Criticisms
    • Moral Arguments for the Existence of God
    • Quick Counters to the Moral Argument
    • Countering the Moral Argument
    • Moral Arguments for God: An Analysis
    • Objective Morality Without God
    • Why I Don't Use The Moral Argument For Theism
    • Arguing God from Morality | Episode 202 | Closer To Truth
    • Rewiewing McDowell and Shermer on Morality

31. Best of All Possible Worlds

32. Near Death Experience

    • Dead as a Doornail: Can Near Death or Out of Body Experiences Prove the Existence of an Afterlife?
    • More Near-Death Delusions and Christian Nonsense
    • Dogmatic Materialists DESTROYED by AMAZING EVIDENCE of Pam Reynolds Near Death Experience Case
    • Bad Apologetics Ep 10 - Are Near Death Experiences Evidence of Life After Death?
    • Near Death Experiences Explained - Truth About NDEs
    • The Evidential Value of Near Death Experiences, Part 1
    • Defeasible Reasoning, NDE Veridicality, and Hume: An Analysis, Part 2
    • A Novel Dilemma and Theoretical Comparison Concerning NDE’s, Part 3
    • Near-Death Experiences are Not Evidence for Either Atheism or Theism
    • Hallucinatory Near-Death Experiences
    • Lifeafterdeath Immortality

33. Transcendental_argument For God

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

34. Debates

    • Stephen Fry & Jordan Peterson on Morality
    • Copleston Russell Debate

35. God of the Gaps

36. The Holy Ghost

    • Philosophical Failures of Christian Apologetics, Part 11: The Holy Spirit
    • Craig on Faith and Doubt

37. 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

38. Divine Command & Resources

    • Epistemological Objection
    • Critique of Grabers Divine Command Theory
    • Euthyphro_dilemma
    • Episode 18, Jeremy Koons, On the Euthyphro Dilemma

39. 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
    • Feser's Aristotelian Proof: An Analysis
    • Majesty of Reason Critiques:
      • Part 1
      • Part 2
      • Part 3
      • Part 4
      • Part 5
      • Part 6
      • Part 7

40. 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

41. Argument from Miracles

    • Humes Refutation
    • Wittgensteins Perspective
    • Epistemic Theory of Miracles
    • Miracles and Anomalies: Or, Your Religion is False
    • Hume on religious self-deception
    • Cameron asked about miracle claims. I answered.
    • Arguing God from Miracles & Revelations | Episode 704 | Closer To Truth
    • Cameron asked about miracle claims. I answered.
    • 1. Arif Ahmed, On Miracles
    • RA036: Ben Watkins on Hume Against the Believability of Miracles
    • RA037: Bill Vanderburgh on Misinterpretations of Hume's Of Miracles

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

43. Cumulative_case_argument

    • Criticism

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

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

46. Absence of Good

47. Principle_of_sufficient_reason

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

48. Non Standard Arguments for Gods Existence

    • Non Standard Arguments for Existence and Critical Questions

49. Argument from Free Will

    • free-will-foreknowledge
    • Fatalism
    • Arguments for and against Molinism | Dr. Daniel Rubio

50. Reasons not to Believe

    • Debunking Arguments against Theistic Belief

51. Debunking Arguments Against Theistic Belief

52. Goldstein: 36 ARGUMENTS FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD

53. Salvation in Heaven

    • Paradox of Free Will
    • The Free Will Defense Refuted and God’s Existence Disproved
    • Some Problems of Heavenly Freedom
    • Paradox of Free Will in Heavan

54. Irreducible Complexity

    • Refutation of Behe
    • Evidence for Intelligent Design
    • More Refutations
    • More Problems
    • Rejections of Informational Concepts
    • Rare Earth Hypothesis
    • Complexity isn't that Complex of an Argument

55. Lewis Trilemma

    • Refutation
    • Muslim Examination
    • Lord Liar or Lunatic

56. Incinerating Presuppositionalism

    • Presuppositional_apologetics
    • Is God Necessary? | Episode 607 | Closer To Truth
    • Presuppositionalism Destroyed Like You've Never Seen! | Dr. Alex Malpass

57. Russells Teapot

    • Several Layers of Wrong | Wise Disciple Fails to Shatter Russell's Teapot
    • Ad Hoc Hypothesis
    • Argument from Ignorance
    • Flying_Spaghetti_Monster
    • Hitchens Razor
    • Burden of Proof
    • Argument from Ignorance
    • Evidence of Absense
    • The_Dragon_in_My_Garage

58. The Ethics of Belief

    • The Will to Believe

59. Jesus Resurrection Critically Examined

    • The Evidence for Jesus Is Worse than You Think
    • Ehrman vs Wallace - Can We Trust the Text of the NT?
    • DEBATE: Bart Ehrman vs Mike Licona (Are the Gospels Historically Reliable? 2018)

60. Attributes_of_God_in_Christian_theology

    • Divine Simplicity
    • The fruitful death of modal collapse arguments
    • The reverse ontological argument
    • symmetry breaking
    • S5 Modal Logic
    • a Response to The Modal Ontological Argument, an Explanatory Symmetry Breaker
    • modal ontological arguments
    • Divine Simplicity, God’s Freedom, and the Supposed Problem of Modal Collapse

61. Why Wont God Heal Amputees

    • Response to Got Questions
    • WOTM: Why Won't God Heal Amputees?? Part I
    • WOTM: Why Won't God Heal Amputees?? Part II
    • Why God Won't Heal Amputees Response

62. Efficacy of prayer

    • Study of the Therapeutic Effects of Intercessory Prayer (STEP)
    • Prayer and healing: A medical and scientific perspective on randomized controlled trials
    • Prayers don’t help heart surgery patients
    • The Harvard Prayer Experiment
    • Does God Answer Prayer? Researcher Says 'Yes'
    • Prayer as medicine: how much have we learned?
    • Effects of oxytocin administration on spirituality and emotional responses to meditation
    • Meditation, Prayer and Spiritual Healing: The Evidence

63. Divine Revelation

    • Authenticity_of_divine_revelation

64. The Jury Is In: The Ruling on McDowell’s “Evidence”

    • Christianity DISPROVED in Somewhat More than 5 minutes - Responding to Habermas on the Resurrection
    • Historicity Argument: Problem of Instruction

65. Argument_from_religious_experience

    • Religious Experience
    • Religious Epistemology
    • The Argument from Religious Experience
    • An Argument Against The Argument from Religious Experience
    • Paul Draper, the Fallacy of Understated Evidence, Theism, and Naturalism
    • Understating the Evidence
    • The fallacy of understated evidence
    • Direct Experiences
    • Miracles
    • Psychic Phenomena
    • Strengths and Weaknesses
    • The Experience of God: Being, Consciousness, Bliss

66. 200 (or so) Arguments for Atheism

67. Anthropic principle

    • Is The Anthropic Principle Significant?
    • The Problem with the "Rare Earth Hypothesis"
    • How Many "Earth-Like" Planets are there?
    • The Drake Equation after 60 Years
    • The Birth Death Drake Equation
    • Anthropic Principle
    • Is the Anthropic Principle Significant? | Episode 1904 | Closer To Truth
    • Anthropic Principle and Refutation

68. psychophysical harmony

69. Theological Fatalism

    • Divine Foreknowledge and Human Freedom | Dr. Taylor Cyr and Sean Clements
    • Is Omniscience Possible? | Dr. Josh Rasmussen
    • Omniscience, Time, and Freedom

70. The Argument for God from Logic

    • From Abstracta to Atheism? | Dr. Felipe Leon
    • Why the “Existence” of Logic Can’t Prove God
    • Logic Doesn't Need God - Responding to James Anderson
    • Does Maths Prove God? Alexey Burov vs James Fodor

71. Ed Feser Rebuttals

    • Feser's Neo-Platonic Proof: An Analysis
    • Can We "Prove" that God Exists? | Graham Oppy vs Ed Feser
    • Feser's Aristotelian Proof: An Analysis

72. Addressing the New Christian Apologetics: The Embarrassing Follies of Conway and Ferrer

    • Christianity's Calculated Kindness: Unraveling The Manipulative Strategy!
    • The Manipulative Nature of the Gospel Message
    • Common Manipulation Tactics Used in Christian Churches
    • Inside Christian Fundamentalism: 30 Wild Stories From My Personal Experience!
    • Sean McDowell Overselling The Influence And Importance Of The Bible
    • Street Evangelism: Christian Manipulation And Predatory Tactics
    • Apologetics | An Empire of Manipulation!
    • Everything WRONG With Christian Apologetics
    • Apologist HUMILIATES Himself
    • DANIEL: PSYCHOLOGY OF APOLOGETICS
    • Let's review some more Capturing Christianity Cringe

73. Refuting Classical Theism

    • Why the moral argument for God's existence fails
    • Reviewing the William Lane Craig & Scott Clifton on Discussion the Kalam
    • Episode 18, Jeremy Koons, On the Euthyphro Dilemma
    • RA018: Scott Davison on Petitionary Prayer
    • RA013: Quentin Smith on Natural Evils and Immaterial Minds
    • RA012: Interview: Felipe Leon on Ex Nihilo Creation
    • God and the Physical Dependency of Minds; An Interview with Ben Watkins
    • What makes a good prophecy?: Responding to more Christian Apologetics nonense
    • RA009: Interview: Wes Morriston on Moral Freedom and The Moral Argument
    • RA041: Joe Campbell on David Hume's Refutation of the Cosmological Argument
    • RA35: Andrew Pavelich on the Moral Problem with the Free Will Defense
    • An Argument from Religious Disagreement. (Justin Schieber on Apologetics Academy)

74. The Grounds of Moral Status