Cosmological and Design Argument

Cosmological and Design Argument

This week, we are focusing on the Cosmological argument and the Design argument. These arguments represent how one can think about religion from a philosophical perspective.

In your blog, I would like you to reflect more generally on what, if anything, you think philosophy might contribute to the understanding of religion. Think about i) whether you think these arguments might change someone's religious convictions, and ii) whether there is anything about religious experience that is left out of these arguments (for example, some people might say that faith is important for religious conviction, yet of course faith has no role in philosophical argument).

The debate then focuses on two points: first, whether the PSR in question is true, and second, whether the explanation must involve God or at least some God-like being.I feel that many people have struggled for very many years to understand what religious ideas and experiences mean or do not mean. People believe many different things about God, with some saying they do not believe at all. How can we know God? If He is ineffable or indescribable, then how is it that people have sought to give accounts of Him within religious texts throughout the years? To some, God is even too holy to be named; and perhaps He is beyond human language and its limits? Others suggest that God could be known from His effects, hence talk of His being all-powerful, just, all knowing, as well as the converse of these. I believe that philosophy can help to answer these questions, and I will say that some of philosophical arguments, such as Cosmological argument and the Design argument may change someone's religious convictions. I mean I have even struggled with the thought ;Who is God? What classifies as religion? Why? All the questions that come up, but also I was raise in a Baptist household, so there was no questions allowed to be asked, or any doubts aloud. As I have grow older all of these questions come in to play ,and everything I learned as a child and teen now comes into question.