God Is God Rational

The probability of rational belief in God have been wrestled with by great minds ranging from Aristotle, Augustine, Wilhelm Leibniz and Aquinas, to Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, Rene Descartes, John Locke, George Berkeley, Friedrich Hegel, Blaise Pascal, William James, Thomas Reid, Auguste Comte, Johann Wittgenstein, Arthur Schopenhauer, Martin Heidegger, and Alvin Plantinga and emerged from the flames of uncertainty and the tests of evidentialism still convinced that religious belief is reasonable, defensible, and justified. These philosophers have in one way or the other claimed that belief in God is rational.

There are still philosophers who argue against the rationality of belief in and they demand that all beliefs be subjected to the proving of reason. They hold that if the belief cannot stand the scrutiny of reason, then it is irrational. According to these evidentialists belief in God is irrational because to them there is not sufficient

That notwithstanding, together with William James, there are philosophers that are not for evidentialism like Alvin Plantinga, Jack Meiland, Ronald Nash, Blaise Pascal, Nicholas Woterstorff, Thomas Reid among other who argue that belief in cosmic divine being is rational, reasonable and right even without proof. In other words they argue for the rationality of belief in God.

Now that we have patterns of what, according to evidentialist, make up evidence that justifies belief, in our question are we are to examine whether belief in God could endure the scrutiny of reason that holds;

1] if there is sufficient evidence for the existence of God, then belief in God is rational;

2] There is sufficient evidence for the existence of God

3] Therefore belief in God is