Essays on Existence of God

The design argument is concerned to find the meaning or purpose in this world; they seek to move from facts about the world to God. Like the cosmological argument, the design argument draws back to arguments put forward by Socrates and Plato who said that ‘the human body, with all its principles and elements must…

PALEY ’ S TELEOLOGICAL ARGUMENT This paper will analyze the statement put frontward by William Paley in 1802, in his Natural Theology. Paley offers an statement from design that purports to demo a clear and distinguishable ground why 1 should keep a belief in God, due to the built-in characteristics of the universe. It is…

The next stage in the system, as outlined in the Meditations, seeks to establish that God exists. In his writings, Descartes made use of three principal arguments. The first (at least in the order of presentation in the Meditations) is a causal argument. While its fullest statement is in Meditation III, it is also found…

Thomas Aquinas famously formulated his version of the cosmological or “first cause” argument. According to this argument, the things which we see around us now are the products of a series of previous causes. But that series cannot go back in time forever. Thus there must be some first cause which was not itself caused…