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Luis Verduzco

Professor Briones

English 1302 222

03/03/2022

The Existence of God

Intro

All throughout history there has been one question that comes up time and time again, Is

God real? Articles have been written about the existence of a higher power and some are

displayed in this essay following logic, philosophy, and countering arguments. The information

is presented to show the different points of views from some of the articles and are there to

inform the reader.

Logic

Some articles focus on the aspect of proving that God is real through the use of facts and

logic about the world as well as through defining what it means to believe in God or not. In Five

Proofs of the Existence of God by Stephen L. Brock, the author talks about how the world has a

very careful and organized order. The author makes it known that the fact that this order exists in

the world means that God exists. He says that if God weren’t real, then the world wouldn’t have

order and it would be thrown into chaos. He also talks about how this order is so fine and

meticulous that it had to have been created and that this just couldn’t happen on its own.

However, as defined by Bruce Milem in Defining Atheism, Theism, and God, an atheist would

not think this way. An atheist would think that the world is just a floating rock in space and that

we got lucky in being formed through evolution and natural selection, believing that there is
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nothing beyond life but a void and that the order we observe throughout the world is just a

completely random thing that happens. Atheist believing that the universe formed through itself

and theists believing that the universe was created through God is what sets them apart from one

and other.

Philosophy

There are a few articles that discuss things in philosophical terms. In Atheism by James

H. Nichols Jr, it is mentioned how atheists believe that after they die that they will go nowhere

and become nothing. The author then goes on to explain that God is in fact nothing of this world,

not man nor anything of sorts and therefore he is nothing. With this being said the author makes

the bold claim that both atheists and theists have something in common because of this, since the

atheist will become nothing and the theist will be one with God who is nothing. An Impossible

Proof of God by Robert E. Pezet, talks about how the author cannot really come up with a full

proof argument for the existence of God, this is because it gives others the ability to choose for

themselves and therefore gives them free will which is what God wants. Because of this the

author claims that the existence of God will always be like a puzzle, since in order to believe,

you will have to have some type of skepticism because that is what faith is, trust. This is in

contrast to what Skeptical Theism Unscathed: Why Skeptical Objections to Skeptical Theism

Fail by Perry Hendricks talks about. The author of this article believes that the mere existence of

the concept of skeptical theism means that people don’t actually believe and that therefore God

isn’t real. Skeptical theism being someone who believes that there is some type of force or being

that made the universe and that they will be there when we die but they don’t fully believe in
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anything past that. This is why the author makes it known that skeptical theism means that God

isn’t real since there are people who have their doubts.

Disproving Arguments

Through searching for articles, it was very difficult to find some saying that God wasn’t

real. However, I did manage to find a lot that counter arguments that God isn’t real. One article

is countering a paper from an atheist who claims that God isn’t real and that those who believe

are just there to cause violence. In Does Christianity Cause Violence?, Glenn B. Siniscalchi

describes that the paper lists all of the terrible things that have happened over the years involving

some type of religion. Countering the argument, the author goes on to list all of the good things

that have come from Christianity all because of the existence of God. He then goes on to talk

about the misconceptions about all of the terrible events that have happened over the years by

stating that we are only humans, and as humans we will make mistakes and misinterpret things.

He then goes on to list an overwhelming amount of good things that have come from Christianity

and people that believe that God exists. In Rethinking Anselm's Arguments: A Vindication of

His Proof of the Existence of God, Daniel Waldow revisits an argument that has been standing

for over 900 years where people have interpreted as saying that God isn’t real. However, the

author claims that people have been looking at it all wrong and that the argument is actually

saying that God is real. He states that the author of the argument was saying common things that

atheists would say but later goes on to clarify that God is greater than cannot be thought,

meaning that he thinks God is real. The author of the article then goes on to explain why people

missed this crucial but simple clarification in the argument by saying that it was buried under a
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bunch of senseless arguments from atheists that the author of the 900-year-old argument had

written.

Conclusion

The articles on the existence of God have a variety of subtopics. Though there weren’t

many on non-believers, there were some peer reviewed articles that countered other papers that

don’t believe. These articles were among the most informative and are grouped by ones that

follow logic, philosophy, and ones that counter arguments. It is important to understand different

points of view in order to recognize other cultures and peoples and to not lose sight of the fact

that we are all just humans living on a rock that is floating in space, or living on a well-conceived

masterpiece created by a higher power.