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Five Proofs of the Existence of God
by Edward Feser
ISBN: 1621641333
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throw0101a · 2019-11-10 · Original thread
> Here's the problem - God doesn't exist ...

Aristotle would disagree:

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/07/first-way-some-backgrou...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/08/first-way-moving-tale.h...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/09/first-way-part-ii-two-l...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/10/first-way-part-iii-big-...

> The only absolute laws are the laws of physics.

Then you're left with explaining the laws of physics and why they exist. Those laws are contingent after all. See Aquinas's "argument from contingency" (though not the general cosmological argument or Kalām variant, which are not very good) as well as Leibniz:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmological_argument#Argument...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principle_of_sufficient_reason

For a fuller treatment see Feser:

* https://www.amazon.com/Five-Proofs-Existence-Edward-Feser/dp...

throw0101a · 2019-11-09 · Original thread
> I don't know the author, but anyone advocating for a God or a religion is a person 1. with an agenda and 2. can has no scientific basis for his thesis.

There is no scientific basis for Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem either. That doesn't mean it it false.

> God, the one in Quran or Bible, doesn't exist. It's as simple as that.

Aristotle would disagree:

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/07/first-way-some-backgrou...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/08/first-way-moving-tale.h...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/09/first-way-part-ii-two-l...

* https://tofspot.blogspot.com/2014/10/first-way-part-iii-big-...

See also Plotinus, Augustine, Aquinas, and Leibniz, not of whom make reference to the any kind of Sacred Scripture

* https://www.amazon.com/Five-Proofs-Existence-Edward-Feser/dp...

simula67 · 2019-09-25 · Original thread
It is possible to think critically even if you are Catholic. For example, here is a book that goes through some logical arguments for God's existence: https://www.amazon.com/Five-Proofs-Existence-Edward-Feser/dp...

You can listen to Edward Feser on youtube for some the reasoning behind Catholic dogma.