Wednesday, October 10, 2007

The real Existence of God

There are numerous arguments for and against the reality and existence of God have been proposed and cast off by philosophers, theologians, and added thinkers. In philosophical terminology, such arguments concern schools of thought on the epistemology of the ontology of God.

There are lots of philosophical issues concerning the existence of God. Some definitions of God are so unclear that it is certain that something exists that meets the definition; while other definitions are it seems that self-contradictory. Arguments for the existence of God characteristically include empirical, inductive, metaphysical, and subjective types. Arguments next to the existence of God normally contain empirical, deductive, and inductive types. Conclusions reached contain: "God exists and this can be confirmed"; "God exists, but this cannot be confirmed or disproven" (theism in both cases); "God does not survive" (strong atheism); "God roughly certainly does not exist" (de facto atheism); and "no one knows whether God exists" (agnosticism). There are many variations on these positions.

A current argument for the existence of God is called clever or intelligent design, which asserts that "certain features of the world and of living things are best explained by a clever cause, not an undirected procedure for instance natural selection". It is a modern form of the traditional argument from design, modified to keep away from specifying the nature or identity of the designer. Its main proponents, all of whom are connected with the Discovery Institute, just believe the designer to be the Abrahamic God.

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