Original idea - Argument mapping

Alvin Plantinga's version of the free will defense is an attempt to refute the so-called logical problem of evil, the argument that to posit the existence of an omnipotent, omniscient, wholly good god in an evil world constitutes a logical...

x Intelligent Design

The theory of intelligent design (ID) holds that certain features of the universe and of living things are best explained by an intelligent cause rather than an undirected process such as natural selection. ID is thus a scientific disagreement with...

x Loch Ness Monster

The Loch Ness Monster is a debated, mythical creature, most commonly speculated to be from a line of long-surviving plesiosaurs, that is reputed to inhabit Loch Ness in the Scottish Highlands. It is similar to other supposed lake monsters in...

x Argument from miracles

The argument from miracles is an argument for the existence of God relying on eyewitness testimony of the occurrence of miracles (usually taken to be physically impossible/extremely improbable events) to establish the active intervention of a...

x Argument from morality

The argument from morality is one of many arguments for the existence of God. This argument comes in different forms, all aiming to demonstrate God’s existence from some observations about morality in the world. All forms of the moral argument begin...

x Absolute Infinite

The Absolute Infinite is mathematician Georg Cantor's concept of an "infinity" that transcended the transfinite numbers. Cantor equated the Absolute Infinite with God. He held that the Absolute Infinite had various mathematical properties, including...

x Transcendental argument for the existence of God

The Transcendental Argument for the Existence of God (TAG) is the argument that attempts to prove God's existence by arguing that logic, morals, and science ultimately (though unwittingly) presuppose the Christian worldview, and that God's absolute...

x Christological argument

The Christological argument for the existence of God is based on certain claims about Jesus. The argument, which exists in several forms, holds that if these claims are valid, one should accept God exists. There are three main threads: The essential...

x Witness argument

The witness argument is an argument that is meant to help prove the existence of God, based on the assumption that many people have claimed to have personal experience with God. In the Old Testament bible there are many accounts of interactions with...

x Kalam cosmological argument

William Lane Craig

The Kalām cosmological argument is a variation of the cosmological argument taking its form from the Kalām tradition of Islamic discursive theology. It attempts to prove the existence of God by appealing to the principle of universal cause. It is...

x Primum movens

Primum movens (Latin), in English usually referred to as the First Cause, is a term used in the philosophical and theological cosmological argument for the existence of God, and in thinking about cosmogony, the source of the cosmos or "all-being",...

x Argument from a proper basis

The Argument from a proper basis is an ontological argument for the existence of God related to fideism. Alvin Plantinga argued that belief in God is a properly basic belief, and so no basis for belief in God is necessary.

x Trademark argument

René Descartes

The trademark argument is an a priori argument for the existence of God developed by French philosopher and mathematician, René Descartes. The argument, though similar to the ontological argument, differs in some respects, since it seeks to prove...

x Argument from Desire

The argument from desire is an argument for the existence of God. It is most known in recent times through the writings of C. S. Lewis, for whom it played pivotal role in his own conversion to theism and thence to Christianity. As a syllogism it can...

x Argument from beauty

The argument from beauty is an argument for the existence of God as against materialism. Its logical structure is essentially as follows: Points 2, 3 and 4 are relatively un-controversial, so discussion focuses on the premise (1). The principal...

x Argument from religious experience

The Argument from religious experience is an argument for the existence of God, as against materialism. Its logical structure is essentially as follows: Points 2, 3 and 4 are relatively un-controversial, and the argument is formally valid, so...

x Argument from degree

The argument from degrees or the degrees of perfection argument is an argument for the existence of God first proposed by mediaeval Roman Catholic theologian Thomas Aquinas as one of the five ways to prove God in his Summa Theologica. It is based on...

x Argument from consciousness

The argument from consciousness is an argument for the existence of God based on consciousness. The argument may be stated in inductive or deductive form Given theism and naturalism as live options fixed by our background beliefs, theism provides a...

x Ontological argument

Anselm of Canterbury

An ontological argument for the existence of God attempts the method of a priori proof, which uses intuition and reason alone. In the context of the Abrahamic religions, ontological arguments were first proposed by the Medieval philosophers Avicenna...

x Necessary Existent

The Necessary Existent is part of some versions of the Ontological argument for the existence of God, an argument used particularly in Islamic and Christian religious traditions. Like the ontological argument itself, it is in the form of an a priori...

x Argument from Reason

The Argument from Reason is an argument for the existence of God largely developed by C.S. Lewis who once delivered this compendious formulation of the argument: The argument against materialism holds: The argument for the existence of God holds: As...

x Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit

Richard Dawkins

The God Delusion

The Ultimate Boeing 747 gambit is an argument for the improbability of the existence of God. It was introduced by Richard Dawkins in chapter 4 "Why there almost certainly is no God" of his 2006 book The God Delusion. Dawkins offers it as a counter...

x Russell's teapot

Russell's teapot, sometimes called the Celestial Teapot, was an analogy first coined by the philosopher Bertrand Russell (1872–1970), intended to refute the idea that the burden of proof lies upon the sceptic to disprove unfalsifiable claims of...

x Incompatible-properties argument

The Incompatible-properties argument is the idea that no description of God is consistent with reality. For example, if one takes the definition of God to be described fully from the Bible, then the claims of what properties God has described...

x Problem of evil

In the philosophy of religion and theology, the problem of evil is the question of whether evil exists and, if so, why. The question particularly arises in religions that propose the existence of a deity who is omnibenevolent while simultaneously...

x Argument from nonbelief

Theodore Drange

The argument from nonbelief (also known as the argument from divine hiddenness) is a philosophical argument against the existence of God. The premise of the argument is that if God existed (and wanted humanity to know it), he would have brought...

x Argument from free will

The argument from free will (AFFW) contends that omniscience and free will are incompatible, and that any conception of God that incorporates both properties is therefore inherently contradictory. Moses Maimonides formulated an argument, in the...

x Theological noncognitivism

Theological noncognitivism is the argument that religious language, and specifically words like "God" (capitalized), are not cognitively meaningful. Some thinkers propose it as a way to prove the nonexistence of anything named "God". It is sometimes...

x Argument from poor design

The dysteleological argument or argument from poor design is an argument against the existence of God, specifically against the existence of a creator God (in the sense of a God that directly created all species of life). It is based on the...

x Universal grammar

Noam Chomsky

Universal grammar (UG) is a theory of linguistics postulating principles of grammar shared by all languages, thought to be innate to humans (linguistic nativism). It attempts to explain language acquisition in general, not describe specific...

x Psychological nativism

In the field of psychology, nativism is the view that certain skills or abilities are 'native' or hard wired into the brain at birth. This is in contrast to empiricism, the 'blank slate' or tabula rasa view, which states that the brain has inborn...

x Spontaneous generation

Aristotle

Spontaneous generation or Equivocal generation is an obsolete theory regarding the origin of life from inanimate matter, which held that this process was a commonplace and everyday occurrence, as distinguished from univocal generation, or...

x Theistic evolution

Theistic evolution and evolutionary creationism are similar concepts that assert that classical religious teachings about God are compatible with the modern scientific understanding about biological evolution. In short, theistic evolutionists...

x Iron-sulfur world theory

The iron-sulfur world theory is a set of proposals for the origin of life and the early evolution of life advanced by Günter Wächtershäuser, a Munich chemist and patent lawyer, involving forms of iron and sulfur. It was developed by retrodiction...

x Twin Earth thought experiment

Hilary Putnam

Meaning and Reference

The Twin Earth thought experiment was presented by philosopher Hilary Putnam in his 1973 paper "Meaning and Reference" and subsequent 1975 paper "The Meaning of 'Meaning'", as an early argument for what has subsequently come to be known as semantic...

x Evolution

Al-Jahiz

In biology, evolution is change in the genetic material of a population of organisms from one generation to the next. Though changes produced in any one generation are normally small, differences accumulate with each generation and can, over time,...

Charles Darwin

x RNA world hypothesis

The RNA world hypothesis proposes that a world filled with life based on ribonucleic acid (RNA) predates the current world of life based on deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). RNA, which can both store information like DNA and act as an enzyme, may have...

x Plank of Carneades

Carneades

In ethics, the plank of Carneades is a thought experiment first proposed by Carneades of Cyrene; it explores the concept of self-defense in relation to murder. In the thought experiment, there are two shipwrecked sailors, A and B. They both see a...

x Li

Li （理）is a concept found in Neo-Confucian Chinese philosophy. It refers to the underlying intelligence and order of nature as reflected in its organic forms. It may be translated as rational principle or law. It was central to Zhu Xi's integration...

x Violinist

The Violinist is a famous thought experiment first posed by Judith Jarvis Thomson in 1971. The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy describes her thought experiment as follows: In her introduction to her "Famous Violinist Problem", Thomson notes that...

x General relativity

Albert Einstein

General relativity or the general theory of relativity is the geometric theory of gravitation published by Albert Einstein in 1916. It is the current description of gravitation in modern physics. It unifies special relativity and Newton's law of...

x Billions of Cameras and Sensors Everywere

x Time of Millions of Events

x Position Of Everyone and Everything - Who was at the scene of a crime?

x How to Save, Organize and Protect Information from Destruction and Abuse

x War Without Death or Serious Distruction - Example: Destroying 1000 transformers near seat of power

There are two sides to this concept.

One is to use technology to make a war unpalatable to any state or power and otherwise eliminate any incentive for undertaking one for gain.

The second is to permit stopping an attack without the losses that...

x Distributed AWACS and JSTARS

x Pilotless Air Superiority and Ground Attack

x Automated Supply Chain

x All the Worlds Information as Databases and Symantic Webs Stored and Processed In Clouds

x Nimby Islands (Not In My Backyard) to do things nobody wants in their back yard.

After Hurricane Katrina a large part of US refining capacity was offline for a long period. The President asked Congress for fast track legislation to allow more refineries to be built. (Capacity was already low). Of course by the time new...

x Nimby Islands to provide profit for Seasteading.org