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Various Arguments For Existence of God

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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

5. Euthyphro_dilemma

   • Episode 18, Jeremy Koons, On the Euthyphro Dilemma

6. Five Ways

   • Unmoved Mover

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. 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

    • 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

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
    • 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 and Counterargument

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

23. Edwards Response to Aquinas

    • 20 Cosmological Arguments: An Analysis

24. Atheists of Silicon Valley

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

25. Sensus_divinitatis

26. Transcendental Argument for God

27. Evolutionary Argument Against Naturalism

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

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)
    • 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

30. 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?

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
    • 12 Design Arguments: An Analysis

32. 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

33. Argument from Degree

34. Watchmaker Analogy and Refutation

35. Anthropic Principle and Refutation

36. Best of All Possible Worlds

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

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
    • Feser's Aristotelian Proof: An Analysis
    • 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
    • Hume on religious self-deception

49. Cumulative_case_argument

    • Criticism

50. Anthropic Principle

    • Is the Anthropic Principle Significant? | Episode 1904 | 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

59. Principle_of_sufficient_reason

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

60. Non Standard Arguments for Gods Existence

    • Non Standard Arguments for Existence and Critical Questions

61. Argument from Free Will

    • free-will-foreknowledge
    • Fatalism

62. Absence of Good

64. Reasons not to Believe

    • Debunking Arguments against Theistic Belief

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

    • 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

72. 30 Arguments Against God

73. 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

74. Lewis Trilemma

    • Refutation
    • Muslim Examination
    • Lord Liar or Lunatic

75. Incinerating Presuppositionalism

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

76. 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

77. The Ethics of Belief , The Will to Believe

78. 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)

79. The_Dragon_in_My_Garage

80. 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

81. 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

82. 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

83. Divine Revelation

    • Authenticity_of_divine_revelation

84. Argument from Locality

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

86. 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

87. 200 (or so) Arguments for Atheism

88. 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

89. An atheological argument from evil natural laws

90. psychophysical harmony

91. Phil Halper and Ken Williford, on Animal Suffering

92. Episode 11, Tyler McNabb, On Reformed Epistemology

93. Theological Fatalism

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

94. PZ Myers - The Evolution of Creationism

95. The Argument for God from Logic

    • From Abstracta to Atheism? | Dr. Felipe Leon

96. Feser's Neo-Platonic Proof: An Analysis

97. 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