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From Chains of Reason

Chains > Religion > The existence of a god or gods

A depiction of the Christian god in the Sistine Chapel fresco Creation of the Sun and Moon by Michelangelo.

Arguments in favour

• The Design Argument (or Teleological Argument):

Chain 5: There exists a god or multiple gods.

Chain 40: There exists a god or multiple gods. [a variation of the Design Argument based on the Anthropic Principle]

• Responses to the Design Argument:

Chain 39: The Design Argument does not prove the existence of a unique, all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good god.

• The First Cause Argument (or Cosmological Argument):

Chain 43: There exists a god or multiple gods.

• Responses to the First Cause Argument:

Chain 44: The First Cause Argument is self-contradictory.

Chain 48: The First Cause Argument does not prove the existence of a unique, ever-present, all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good god.

• The Ontological Argument:

Chain 50: A god must exist, by definition.

• Responses to the Ontological Argument:

Chain 52: The Ontological Argument is unsound.

Chain 54: The Ontological Argument is contradicted by the Problem of Evil.

Arguments against

• The Problem of Evil:

Chain 7: An all-knowing, all-powerful and all-good god does not exist.

Other arguments

• Pascal's Wager:

Chain 8: It is in one's interests to believe in the existence of the god of Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

• Miscellaneous:

Chain 47: A being with independent existence from our universe, and immensely more intelligence and power than humans, is not necessarily a god.

External links

• Existence of God - Wikipedia article