Theistic Visions by Tom Morris

Main structure

Ontological argument

Cosmological argument

Designer Arugment
Religious Experience

Background on Ontological Arugment

Saint anselm Archbishop of Canterbury and Rene Descartes.

It comes from ontos - existences, and logos. THe argument can be constructed with reasoning alone

Rationalist God

That which no greater can be concieved, believed by Anselm

Criticisms of Ontological Step 3

Whether or not we bleive there is a god”

There is not too much definite consensus

Ontological Reasonining

1. GoCd is the greatest possible thing
2. A greatest possible being has the greatest from possible and is necessary existence (definition)
3. There is a possibility that ther eis a God
4. A God who existes in any possible circumstance exists in all
5. God must exist in the world (the circumstances we find ourselves in

Cosmology and God

The ultimate causers

Cosomological Argument

1, Somethign must be inteilligible if it can be explained

2. The existence of the universe is either unitelliglble or has an explanation

3. No rational person should accept that the unvierse is unintelligible

4. A rational person should believe that the unvierse has an explanation

5. There are only three kinds of explanation: Scientific - cause and effect, personal, and essential

6. The universe cannot be explained scientifically (reduciton ad absurdum)

7. The universe cannot be essentil - the universe doesn’t exist out of necessity

8. Therefore a rational person should believe that the universe has a personal explanation

9. No person but God could creation an universe

   1. a rational person should believe that ther eis a God

Principle of Sufficient Reason

There must be an explanation for any being and any positive fact

Theists and PSR

There must be a self existent bein. Step 1. Everything is either dependent or self -existent

2. Not every being can be self dependent

Designer Universe argument

A watch has a creator, so somnething like the universe must be created

Confirmation Theory

Tow hypothesis, they R

Religious Experience

Feeling an unseen precense

Reynolds Price had a religious belief