Tag: Five Ways (Aquinas)

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News
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September 23, 2021

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Philosophy, Science

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Augustine, Augustinian proof (of God), Featured, Fifth Way (Aquinas), First Way (Aquinas), Five Ways (Aquinas), Fourth Way (Aquinas), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, Matt Dillahunty, Michael Egnor, Moral law (as proof of God), Mystic proof (of God), Neoplatonic proof (of God), Plato, Plotinus, Second Way (Aquinas), Theology Unleashed, Third Way (Aquinas)}

2. A Neurosurgeon’s Ten Proofs for the Existence of God

_{First, how did a medic, formerly an atheist, who cuts open people’s brains for a living, come to be sure there is irrefutable proof for God?} _{News
September 23, 2021

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Philosophy, Science}

“Does God exist?” On September 17, in a dramatic debate, Christian neurosurgeon Michael Egnor and atheist broadcaster Matt Dillahunty squared off on the question at Theology Unleashed. The debate hosts are Arjuna Das for Theology Unleashed and Nathan from Digital Gnosis as the moderator. A partial transcript and notes follow. Egnor has been a guest at Theology Unleashed, before, debating materialist philosopher David Papineau. The ten proofs of God that he presents as his opening argument below are not drawn from sacred texts but from philosophical reasoning: Michael Egnor: There are, broadly speaking, two different kinds of theology. There’s natural theology and there’s revealed theology. Revealed theology is the use of scripture, personal experiences, or relationships to God. And that’s Read More ›

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Michael Egnor
Date
April 18, 2021

Categorized
Philosophy, Religion, Science

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Essential causal chain, Featured, First Cause, Five Ways (Aquinas), God (as First Cause), God (as First Reason), God (as Prime Mover), Jerry Coyne, Prime Mover, Principle of Sufficient Reason, Thomas Aquinas, Torbjörn Larsson, Universe (as First Cause), Universe (as self-existent)}

Why the Universe Itself Can’t Be the Most Fundamental Thing

_{Atheist biology professor Jerry Coyne is mistaken in dismissing my observation that proofs of God’s existence follow the same logical structure as any other scientific theory} _{Michael Egnor
April 18, 2021

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Philosophy, Religion, Science}

Jerry Coyne has posted in reply to my observation that God’s existence can be demonstrated by the ordinary methods of science. That is to say, all proofs of God’s existence are scientific theories in the sense that they have the same logical structure as any other scientific theory that proposes explanations for the natural world. Scientific theories are inductive in that they depend upon evidence in the natural world to reach a conclusion. Thus demonstrations of God’s existence, for example Thomas Aquinas’s Five Ways, are scientific theories in the sense that Newton’s Law of Gravitation, Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, Quantum Mechanics, and Darwin’s Theory of Evolution are scientific theories. Scientific theories can demonstrate the existence of things outside of nature Read More ›

World mental health day concept: Silhouette of human standing to worship God in meadow autumn sunset background

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Michael Egnor
Date
April 11, 2021

Categorized
Philosophy, Religion

Tagged
(Fifth Way), Big Bang, Black hole, Deductive reasoning, Evidence, Featured, First Way (Aquinas), Five Ways (Aquinas), Inductive reasoning, Jerry Coyne, Proof, Samuel Benson}

Here’s Why an Argument for God’s Existence Is Scientific

_{The form of reasoning and the type of evidence accepted is the same as with Newton’s theories or Darwin’s} _{Michael Egnor
April 11, 2021

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Philosophy, Religion}

Atheist evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne is a fountain of nonsensical arguments against the existence of God. If a scholar wanted to write a review paper on the most ridiculous arguments against God’s existence so far in the 21st century, he would need look no further than Coyne’s blog. Coyne’s latest post denying God’s existence takes issue with an essay by Samuel Benson in the Deseret News in which Benson makes the case that invoking both a miracle and a scientific achievement in the development of the COVID vaccine is not necessarily contradictory. Benson points out that the natural world, properly understood, can only be explained using both science and theology. In support of his view, he quotes the president of Read More ›