Arguments for the Existence of God

Arguments for Existance of God

I have chosen the Christian religion to examine in this particular

piece of coursework. Over the centuries philosophers and theologians

have put forward a number of different arguments to argue the

existence of God. The particular arguments I will be looking at are

the Teleological Argument and the Cosmological Argument.

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William Paley put the Teleological argument forward. This argument is

also known as the argument of Design and Purpose. He believed that

there was natural evidence in the world which supported the idea of a

divine designer whose aim was to produce such a supreme life form. The

world is too complex and far too detailed to have been made just by

chance that it has a designer. It argues against the Big Bang by

putting it into perspective and comparing the world with a watch. On a

smaller scale, it defines that if all the small pieces of a watch were

put in a tray and thrown up into the air, it isn't likely that all the

pieces would fall perfectly into place and the watch would work fully.

Therefore, how could the world (being the watch) just fall into place

as the Big Bang argument states? The world must have had a designer,

someone who planned and made the world, just like someone designed,

planned and made the watch. If you were to look at the world like the

watch, and think about how it had a designer to make it, you can

understand the Teleological Argument saying that the world is way too

complex to just appear from a bang. Even if you just take a hedgehog

for instance, even though they are very small, they ...

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... all. Here are some queries to think about when trying to find Gods

existence. In order to find a person, we need to find where the person

is. In order to contact something, we need to know the realm in which

that thing exists. Where is God? What realm is God living in? Where is

man? What realm is man living in? Is there a common realm in which the

two may meet?

So the question is can we prove that God exists? The answer is no, you

can't. Very few come to Christian faith through a process of logical

proof. We may believe very sincerely that God exists, but producing

proof is quite another matter and makes the matter of God being real

more impossible. It is nearly without dispute that everything that

exists is visible to physical eyes. So, if in fact God does truly

exist, he too should be visible to the eyes.