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Philosophy 1- Beliefs About Deity:
Reasons Given in Support Of Belief
- The Ontological Argument
- God is 'That than which nothing greater can be conceived'
- We cannot think of anything greater than God, and therefore God exists
- St Anselm of Canterbury
- Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109 who first put forward the Ontological Argument
- Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109 who first put forward the Ontological Argument
- St Anselm of Canterbury
- We cannot think of anything greater than God, and therefore God exists
- God is 'That than which nothing greater can be conceived'
- The Cosmological Argument
- The universe must have come from somewhere
- Christians believe it came from God
- God is the 'First Cause'
- God is the 'First Cause'
- The Big Bang Theory
- A scientific theory which suggests that
the universe was created by a massive
explosion about 18 billion years ago
- A scientific theory which suggests that
the universe was created by a massive
explosion about 18 billion years ago
- Christians believe it came from God
- The 'First Cause'
- St Thomas Aquinas
- A philosopher and theologian who devised
several versions of the cosmological argument
- Necessary being- theory that
God must exist because he
cannot not exist
- A philosopher and theologian who devised
several versions of the cosmological argument
- The universe must have come from somewhere
- The Teleological Argument
- The world shows that it has been designed so it
must have been created of designed by someone
- The Intelligent Design Argument
- A theory which states that life is too complex
that it must have been designed by a higher
being and did not evolve by natural selection
- Natural selection- a theory that tiny differences
and genetic mutations between creatures of the
same species can sometimes make one
individual slightly better suited to their environment
than others. This means that is survives longer
and has more offspring that will inherit this trait
- Charles Darwin
- A naturalist who developed
the theory of natural selection
- Charles Darwin
- Natural selection- a theory that tiny differences
and genetic mutations between creatures of the
same species can sometimes make one
individual slightly better suited to their environment
than others. This means that is survives longer
and has more offspring that will inherit this trait
- A theory which states that life is too complex
that it must have been designed by a higher
being and did not evolve by natural selection
- The world shows that it has been designed so it
must have been created of designed by someone
- The Argument from Experience
- People can experience God which proves he exists
- This could be through miracles, conversion, answered prayers or the numinous
- Rudolf Otto
- A Christian theologian who wrote about the idea of the numinous
- A Christian theologian who wrote about the idea of the numinous
- Numinous is a mysterious power that
suggests the presence of a spirit or god
- Rudolf Otto
- This could be through miracles, conversion, answered prayers or the numinous
- People can experience God which proves he exists
- The Moral Argument
- People have a basic understanding of 'good' and 'bad', 'right' and 'wrong'
- This knowledge must have come from God
- This knowledge must have come from God
- People have a basic understanding of 'good' and 'bad', 'right' and 'wrong'
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