Paul Goldstein
Professor Malenski
PHI2010
February 21 2020
God’s Existence
One of the most debated topics in the philosophical realm is the existence of God and
philosophers have studied this in much detail. Theist
...
Paul Goldstein
Professor Malenski
PHI2010
February 21 2020
God’s Existence
One of the most debated topics in the philosophical realm is the existence of God and
philosophers have studied this in much detail. Theists and atheists have been debating each other
about the idea that whether is there a God who created human beings or the idea of God is mere
human creation? The majority of atheistic thinkers who refute the idea of God’s existence believe
in the scientific interpretations and their propositions are tilted towards logical positivism.
Logical positivism was a famous branch of philosophy that was based on pure observation and
empirical proofs. They also viewed God’s existence from this lens and the majority of
philosophers and thinkers refuted the existence of God. However, it is important to consider
whether the subject of God’s existence comes under pure empirical science or it is beyond the
science’s domain? In this paper, the argumentation is going to be tilted in favor of God’s
existence by using philosophical interpretations and arguments while supporting the notion that
God’s existence can be proved by induction and logical argumentation rather than just pure
deterministic science because of its limited scope.
To support the above thesis, we are going to make several arguments in this section. The
very first argument is related to the significance of life without the concept of God. Without the
concept of God and immortality, the existence of human life itself becomes meaningless. It does
not matter how conscious a person may become of his existence but the fact that he is not
immortal and there is no objective meaning to life and morality makes his own existence
doubtful and meaningless (Craig). The argument is supported by William Lane Craig as he
discussed this in his book ‘The absurdity of Life without God’. Another perspective to support
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