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God and the Enlightenment

God and the Enlightenment. NEW WAYS OF THINKING. God Exists Short 4 Corner Debate. WHAT PROOF DO YOU HAVE? Religious Experience Argument Directly experiencing God. Miracles Argument The existence of events that seem to contradict the laws of nature Is this enough Proof???.

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God and the Enlightenment

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  1. God and the Enlightenment NEW WAYS OF THINKING

  2. God ExistsShort 4 Corner Debate • WHAT PROOF DO YOU HAVE? • Religious Experience Argument • Directly experiencing God. • Miracles Argument • The existence of events that seem to contradict the laws of nature • Is this enough Proof???

  3. First Effort to PROVE God • Scholasticism – Medieval effort to fuse faith and reason • Aristotle: The Prime Mover Argument for God • Something HAD to start everything. Nothing comes from Nothing. The prime mover is God • IS THIS ENOUGH PROOF???

  4. Deductive Reasoning • Deductive=Descartes = START WITH THE CONCLUSION AND PROVE IT!!! • Geometrical Proof (Descartes was the father of geometry – DON’T QUESTION THE GIVEN) • If a series of premises are known to be true, then the conclusion must be. • Example: MONTY PYTHON THE WITCH

  5. Inductive Reasoning • A series of premises most likely are true, So the conclusion is most likely true. But test to verify!!! • Later Refined into the Scientific Method by Francis Bacon • Ask a question, gather evidence, construct a hypothesis, test, analyze, MAYBE arrive at a theory.

  6. Proof of God Moral Argument • 1) ALL Human beings have developed moral codes over time. • 2) The development of moral codes suggest that man has a conscience. • 3) So where did this conscience come from? • 4) GOD!!!

  7. Proof of God Cosmological Argument • The universe had a beginning (some today point to the Big Bang). • What was the cause of the Big Bang? • Aristotle’s Prime Mover Argument now based on… • Newton’s First Law of Motion Proves! • An object will remain at rest unless acted upon by an external force

  8. Proof of God Teleological Argument • The universe and the human body is so complex (and so fragile). • This complexity and fragility could not have developed through chance & happenstance. • Augustine of Hippo developed this argument • TODAY CALLED INTELLIGENT DESIGN • 1.618 the Golden Ratio / Fibonacci Sequence / The God Number

  9. Mind Blown by Anselm of CanterburyOntological Argument • 1) By definition, God is a perfect entity • 2) God exists in ALL of our minds (in that ALL can at least conceive of a God). • 2) It is possible that a God exists in reality. • 3) If God ONLY exists in our minds, then it is possible for God to be greater than He is (by being real). This is a contradiction of our definition of God. • It is, therefore, false for God only to exist in our minds. Therefore, God must possess reality.

  10. DeismA “Religion of the Enlightenment” • Existence operates on a series of rational laws established by God (Natural Laws). • These laws could be discerned through human reasoning (a gift from God). • Since God is rational being, human reasoning could be used to understand God. God is all around us. • No need for organized religions, Holy Books, priests or miracles.

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