Unit 5 AS: Understand and Evaluate Arguments for and Against the Existence of God This assignment tests the student’s ability to articulate and evaluate arguments for and against the existence of God....

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Existence of God has been a matter of controversy in philosophy of religion. Over the decades, varied scholars have put forward their views and opinions relating to the subject matter whether God exists or not. According to reports, 60 to
70 percent of the people all around the globe believe in supernatural forces including God, Angels, Devils and Satan. In order to support the opinion that God exists, philosophers have presented varied arguments which include the Cosmological Argument, the Ontological Argument, The Argument from Design, The Argument from Big Bang, and so on.
The Cosmological Argument states that every living or non living being that exists on the surface of the earth has a particular cause to live (Copan et al., 2017). Based on the above opinion it can be deduced that the universe should also have a particular cause. The argument also states that the cause that something exists cannot be itself. And so the universe does not exist for itself. On the basis of the aforementioned ideas, it can be assumed that something apart from itself is the reason who created the universe. And since God is the sole thing outside the universe, so it can be deduced that God is the one creating the universe, thus proving the existence of God.
The Ontological Argument was framed by Saint Anselm who was the Archbishop of Canterbury. St. Anselm professes to determine the existence of God from the idea of a being than which no more prominent can be imagined (Rushby, 2018). St. Anselm contemplated that, in the event that such a being neglects to exist, at that point a more noteworthy being—in particular, a being than which no more prominent can be considered, and which exists—can be imagined. Yet, this would be ridiculous: nothing can be more prominent than a being than which no more noteworthy can be imagined. So a being than which no more noteworthy can be imagined, hence proving the existence of God.
The Argument from Design states that the mere existence of trees, animals, planets and so on indicate towards the fact that someone might have designed them in such a way so that they can contain life, hence proving the existence of God as the designer.
As per the scientists, Big Bang is considered to be the origin of the physical universe that encompasses matter, energy, space, time and laws of physics. The argument states that the universe is Ex Nihilo so something else is responsible for the creation of the universe. The only thing that exists apart from the universe is God and hence God had created the universe, thus proving the existence of God.
Amongst all the arguments that propagate the idea of existence of God, I think that the Cosmological Argument explains the idea based on simple common sense. Based on the simple logic that there cannot be infinite array of causes and there has to be only one main cause and that is...
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