Is It Rational To Belive In God

Question 1

What did Richard Swinburne believe?

Answer 1

He believed in the existence if gods due to miricales

Question 2

What did William Paley believe?

Answer 2

The design argument- the world is to complicated to exist by chance

Question 3

What are the steps of Paleys argument

Answer 3

-complex things do not happen by chance
-the world is complex
-the world cannot have happened by chance
-the world just have been designed by an intelligent being - god

Question 4

What did Sigmund Freud believe?

Answer 4

He believed god is an illusion a filler of the desires of man

Question 5

What are the 3 desires of man?

Answer 5

-The desire for a father
-The desire for fairness and justice
-The desire for immortality

Question 6

What did Thomas Aquines believe?

Answer 6

Cosmological argument - everything is caused by something

Question 7

What are the steps if the cosmological argument?

Answer 7

-everything that exists was caused be something else
-this chain of cause goes back through time
-there must have been a first cause
-the first cause must have been eternal and omnipotent