Existence of God

Arguments for God’s existence are diverse, often categorized as philosophical, moral, experiential, or pragmatic. They aim to provide rational, experiential, or practical grounds for belief in a divine being.

1. **Aquinas’ First Way — Unmoved movernas’s Parasitic Cosmological Argument]] (MacDonald 1991)

   • Stage One of the Aristotelian Proof
   • Critical Appraisal of Feser’s Argument for the Act-Potency Distinction
   • Feser on Schmid on the Aristotelian Proof
   • Feser on Schmid on Existential Inertia
   • Arguments for Classical Theism (Part 1)

2. Aquinas’ Second Way — Uncaused cause

   • Existential inertia analysis
   • Arguments for Classical Theism (Part 1)

3. Aquinas’ Third Way

   • Arguments for Classical Theism (Part 1)

4. Samuel Clarke-style Cosmological Argument

   • Kalam playlist Leibniz’s Cosmological Argument**
   • Principle of sufficient reason analysis

5. Davis-Craig Leibnizian Argument

6. Pruss Leibnizian Argument

7. Gale–Pruss cosmological argument

   • Tomaszewski (2016) on PSR

8. Cosmological Argument without Principle of sufficient reason

9. Koons’ Cosmological Argument

10. Pruss and Rasmussen’s Contingency Argument

11. Emanuel Rutten’s Atomistic Cosmological Argument

12. **Kalam Cosmological Argument (2019) on Causation]]

13. Alexander Pruss’ Kalam Argument

14. Swinburne’s Inductive Cosmological Argument

    • Draper’s SEP Article on Atheism

1. Anselm’s First Ontological Argument (Proslogion II)
   • Oppy’s SEP entry on Ontological Arguments
2. Descartes’ Ontological Argument

23a. Anselm’s Second Ontological Argument (Proslogion III)
23b. Hartshorne on Proslogion III
23c. Maydole’s Reconstruction

1. Plantinga’s Modal Ontological Argument
   • Oppy (2017) on Ontological Arguments
2. Gödel’s Ontological Argument — Demonstration of Possibility
3. Alexander Pruss’ Improvement on Gödel
4. Robert Maydole’s Modal Perfection Argument

1. Design in Biology: Origin of Organic Life
   • Miller–Urey experiment analysis
2. Chandler’s Divine Intervention Argument
3. Paley’s Watchmaker Analogy
4. Tennant’s Argument from Cosmic Teleology
   • Schieber–Rauser universe hostility debate

41b. Collins on Fine-Tuning
42. Collins’ Fine-tuning for discoverability

1. Argument from Objectivity of Morality
2. Evil as Privation of Good
   • Pruss’ lecture
3. Moral Knowledge Argument
   • Disagreement and Evolution in Moral Belief

1. Plantinga on Proper functionalism
   • Felipe Leon interview
2. Alston on Perceiving God (Part 1)
   • Turri (2008) on Alston
3. NDEs as Evidence
   • Sudduth (2016) on Postmortem Survival

1. Resurrection of Jesus as Historical Evidence
   • Resurrection critical appraisal document

1. [[E. J. Lowe|Lowe’s Argument from Abstract Objects
2. Feser’s Augustinian Proof
3. Rasmussen’s Argument from Limits

1. Swinburne’s Argument from simplicity

1. Aquinas’ Fourth Way
2. Beauty in Mathematics

1. Swinburne’s Psychophysical Harmony

   • Dustin Crummett’s analysis

2. Argument from reason

1. Falsity of Semantic Indeterminism

1. Argument from desire
2. Consensus gentium Argument
   • Smith (2019) on Nature Spirits

— General Comments on Pascal’s Wager

• Liz Jackson on Pascal’s Wager

1. Transcendental arguments
2. Arbor’s Cumulative Credence Raiser

— Oppy on Soundness Conditions
— Felipe Leon: 100+ Arguments for Atheism