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  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 with the premise of moral normativity, that is,...
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  Ontological argument

  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 (in The Book of Healing) and Anselm of Canterbury...

• 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 presuppose the Christian worldview, and that God's absolute nature is the source of logic and morals. A version was formulated by...

• 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", and spontaneous generation of life. In book 12 of...

• 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 better explanation of consciousness than...

• Kalam cosmological argument

  The Kalām cosmological argument is a variation of the cosmological argument that argues for the existence of a Sufficient Reason or First Cause for the universe. Its origins can be traced to both medieval Christian and Muslim thinkers, but most significantly to Islamic theologians of the Kalām...

• 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 that every property of the Absolute Infinite is...

• 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 discussion focuses on the premise (1). The principal...

• 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 arguments for the premise are: Richard Swinburne...

• 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 can be seen, this is not strictly a proof of God...