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thinkers:peter_kreeft

Peter Kreeft is a Roman Catholic Apologist and professor of philosophy at Boston College.

20 Arguments for the Existence of God

Kreeft believes he can prove the existence of God. He documents 20 arguments for the existence of God on his website.

The Argument from Change

This argument seems to be a variation of The First Way. It goes something like:

%%{init: {'theme':'forest'}}%% flowchart LR A(All changing things require an external, unchanging cause.)--> B B(The universe is a changing thing.)--> C C(Therefore, the universe requires an external, unchanging cause. This cause is God.)

In the argument, Kreeft states, “Briefly, if there is nothing outside the material universe, then there is nothing that can cause the universe to change.” I'm not convinced this is true.

However, the more fundamental issue with the argument seems to be that it defines the first cause as God. If the first cause does not have a mind (consciousness), it is not God. If we treat the first cause as a variable, we can take every property of God except consciousness, assign it to the first cause variable, and still have a logically coherent first cause.

The Argument from Efficient Causality

The Argument from Time and Contingency

The Argument from Degrees of Perfection

The Design Argument

The Kalam Argument

The Argument from Contingency

The Argument from the World as an Interacting Whole

The Argument from Miracles

The Argument from Consciousness

The Argument from Truth

The Argument from the Origin of the Idea of God

The Ontological Argument

The Moral Argument

The Argument from Conscience

The Argument from Desire

The Argument from Aesthetic Experience

The Argument from Religious Experience

Pascal's Wager

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