Tag Archives: Evidence for God
Desiring God: 10 Quick Points About Our Need for God
1) Various features of the universe constitute the evidence and the question is whether God’s existence would help us make more sense of this evidence than alternative viewpoints. In particular, in comparing Christian theism with atheism, does the existence of God provide a better explanation of the evidence than the view that physical reality is all there is?
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Tagged Desiring God, Evidence for God, Existential Reasons for Faith, Experience, Faith, Gospel, Religious Experience
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Scientific Naturalism and the Argument from Reason
This article outlines the “argument from reason” against scientific naturalism and for theism.
1 What is Scientific Naturalism?
Scientific naturalism, or strict naturalism, is the view that the spatio-temporal universe of entities postulated by our best current (or ideal) sciences, particularly physics, is all there is (Moreland, 2012, p.284) This world-view aims to provide an event-causal, scientific account of how everything has come to be and a general ontology in which the only entities which exist are those which bear a relevant similarity to those which would characterise a completed form of physics (Moreland, 2012, pp.282-285).
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Tagged Argument from Reason, Christianity and Science, CS Lewis, Darwinism, Evidence for God, Evolution, Faith and Reason, God and Science, indepth, Philosophy, Reppert, Things Science Can't Explain
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