Category:Religion and Spirituality
Pages in category "Religion and Spirituality"
The following 152 pages are in this category, out of 152 total.
A
- A God in the image of man is too human to be credible
- A necessary being can only give rise to a contingent universe
- A universe made from nothing is possible, says Lawrence Krauss
- Absence of proof is not proof of absence
- Abstract objects can be conceptually demonstrated
- Arguments for the existence of God are all argumentative biases
- Arguments in favor of miracles are always more improbable than rational explanations.
- Atheists also put forward a thesis
- Awakening experiences show that there is no god
B
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G
- God created man to be self-determining
- God exists because there cannot be an infinite number of causes
- God exists because there cannot be an infinite past
- God explains the creation, adaptation and complexity of species
- God explains the emergence and complexity of human language
- God explains the existence of consciousness
- God gives an account of the world's master plan
- God gives men their freedom
- God is a contradictory concept
- God is a useless hypothesis
- God is an extrapolation of effects onto cause
- God is an idea created by man, whose genealogy can be traced back to
- God is an inexplicable explanation
- God is an invention
- God is everlasting
- God is the first cause of the universe
- God is timeless, therefore causeless
- God is too complex a hypothesis
- God is too human not to be a creation of Man
- God responds too much to our desires for him not to be a human invention.
- God's existence cannot be grasped through evidence
- God's existence is contained in his concept
- God's existence is revealed in sacred texts
- God's omnipotence cannot be reconciled with the freedom assumed by religions.
- God's perfection does not imply his existence
H
I
- If God existed, there should be clear evidence of it.
- If God is infinite, everything is God
- If God is omniscient, creation and freedom are useless
- If morality is independent of men, then men cannot know whether God is good or evil.
- If the universe has no cause, then it is not necessary for it to exist.
- It's up to the person who advances a thesis to prove it.
- It's up to the person who puts forward a thesis to prove it.
M
- Man is too mediocre to have been created by God
- Manifestations of Providence attest to God's intervention
- Many people believe in God, including famous scientists
- Materialism is an irrefutable theory
- Men must earn faith
- Miracles attest to God's direct intervention
- Morality no longer makes sense
- Most people haven't experienced God
- Mystical experiences attest to the presence of God
- Mystical experiences only happen to people with a religious culture
N
- Near-death experiences demonstrate that the mind is immaterial
- No evidence of a god
- No experiment proves the existence of God
- Not "everything" but "every effect" has a cause
- Nothing proves the non-existence of God
- Nothingness is not governed by laws, so nothing prevents it from generating the universe.
O
- Only God could have placed the concept of infinity within us.
- Only God could have placed the concept of perfection within us.
- Only God could have placed the concept of unity within us.
- Only God is the guarantor of the reality and veracity of the world.
- Only the God hypothesis takes us out of perspectivism
- Only the hypothesis of God takes us out of solipsism
- Out-of-body" experiences
P
S
- Sacred texts are unreliable
- Science establishes truths without hypothesizing God
- Several so-called paranormal phenomena show the action of the spirit beyond a physical medium
- So-called mystical experiences are subjective experiences that do not prove the existence of God.
- Solipsism is a false problem
- Some people say they have experienced God
T
- Telepathy
- The absence of human freedom contradicts the existence of a god
- The argument is circular, because to be perfect, you have to be
- The beginning is not the origin
- The burden of proof lies with the party asserting a claim
- The concept of God is a creation of evolution
- The concept of God is a human invention
- The concept of omnipotence is contradictory
- The connection between the kalam argument and Zeno's paradox doesn't hold water.
- The exception to the principle of sufficient reason deserves justification
- The existence of God cannot be demonstrated conceptually
- The existence of God is even more improbable than what God is supposed to have created.
- The existence of the universe is explained by the infinite chain of causes of physical events.
- The fact that we can't explain God doesn't mean he doesn't exist.
- The fallacy of composition is not a fallacy
- The first cause cannot be an abstraction
- The first cause has consciousness
- The first cause is a necessary being
- The first cause is an immaterial point
- The first cause is unknowable
- The first cause may be of a non-physical nature
- The God hypothesis is simpler than the atheist hypothesis
- The human being has a structure that includes the transcendent dimension
- The idea of creation out of nothing is absurd
- The idea of time without beginning is inconceivable because it is contradictory.
- The idea of time without beginning leads us to abandon the notion of time.
- The kalam argument commits the same error as Zeno in his paradox
- The need for something to exist presupposes the existence of God
- The notion of order is a projection of the human mind
- The order and complexity of the world presuppose a Creator God
- The order and complexity of the world presuppose only a supreme Intelligence indifferent to mankind.
- The physical-teleological argument does not prove the existence of a creator god, but only of an ordering demiurge.
- The presentation of the kalam argument is misleading
- The principle of causality does not apply to the universe
- The reasoning that a necessary being can only give rise to a necessary universe confuses logical implication with causal link.
- The representation of God comes from a pre-scientific era
- The theistic hypothesis is simple and elegant
- The universe began to exist with the Big Bang
- The universe has no beginning
- The universe has no cause or reason for being
- The universe is contingent
- The universe is not self-sufficient
- The universe is too empty, too ancient and too vast to correspond to the God of religions.
- The universe was created from nothing
- The world is not deceptive
- The world is not orderly but chaotic
- There are an infinite number of Big Bangs and Big Crunches
- There are divine interventions
- There are no "back worlds" where God would stand
- There is no first instant of time
- There is no spirit outside matter
- There is no truth
- There should be nothing
- There's no reason why God should be the first cause.
- Those who speak of creating from nothing are playing with words
- To constitute myself as a subject, I need others