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    God exists — Carmelics
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    God exists

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    • 1.Everything has an explanation (Principle of Sufficient Reason)
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    • 2.If God does not exist, then the only things that exist are contingent beings
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    • 3.The explanation of the entire series of contingent beings cannot be a member of that series, since no contingent thing is self-explanatory
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    • 1.The world begins to exist at a time
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    • 2.For any being that begins to exist at a time, there must be something that determines that it comes to exist at that time
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    • 3.The cause that determines the world comes to exist at the time it does must be God, who acts by free choice
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    • 1.The physical cosmos has a complex and intelligent structure
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    • 2.The human soul has a complex and intelligent structure
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    • 3.The complex and intelligent structure of the physical cosmos and human soul can only be explained by the action of a supreme being who possesses divine attributes
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    • 1.The universe exists
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    • 2.Just as we can deduce that a sculptor exists when we see a statue, we can deduce from the existence of the universe that there must be a first principle and cause of all things
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    • 3.This first principle and cause of all things is what we call God
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    • 1.Simplicity is an attribute of perfection
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    • 2.God is the most intense limit case of perfection
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    • 3.The doctrine of the simple reality entails the existence of a perfect being
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    Natural Theology18 linkedDivine Attributes6 linkedCausation5 linkedModality & Possibility3 linkedTruth & Knowledge2 linkedAgainst an attribute of God1 linkedConsciousness & Mind1 linked

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    God is the most intense limit case of perfectionIf God does not exist, then the only things that exist are contingent beingsJust as we can deduce that a sculptor exists when we see a statue, we can deduce...

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    God exists.99%It is possible that God exists.91%Hence it is not possible that God exists.89%God does not exist.88%

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    Avicenna’s cosmological argument from the contingency of the world contrasts with another major type of argument for God’s existence in Islamic natural theology, one that aims to demonstrate the existence of God from the beginning of the world in time. Al-Ghazali (1056-1111), in The Incoherence of the Philosophers, develops this type of argument in two steps. The first aims to establish, against a prominent Aristotelian tradition, that the world is not eternal but has a beginning in time. The se
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    Simplicity is an attribute of perfection
    The cause that determines the world comes to exist at the time it does must be G...
    The complex and intelligent structure of the physical cosmos and human soul can ...
    The doctrine of the simple reality entails the existence of a perfect being
    The explanation of the entire series of contingent beings cannot be a member of ...
    The explanation of the entire series of contingent beings cannot be outside the ...
    The human soul has a complex and intelligent structure
    The physical cosmos has a complex and intelligent structure
    The universe exists
    The world begins to exist at a time
    There exists a best possible world
    Therefore, if God did not exist, the series of contingent beings would have no e...
    This first principle and cause of all things is what we call God
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