After being enlightened by the above proposed argument, though, that same materialist is logically forced to agree that, because the "material substratum1" itself can not be sensed, its existence can not be treated as knowledge. ... Berkley argues that such objects still exist because the mind of God is always perceiving them. Unlike the materialists' view, theimmaterialist puts God at the center of his views. In truth, God is the "omnipresent external mind which knows and comprehends all things, and exhibits them to our view in such a manner and according to such rules as He Himself has ...

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The first philosopher to bring forward the reasons for regarding the immediate objects of our senses as not existing independently of is was Bishop Berkley. ... Berkley began by defining matter as something which we think of as occupying space as radically incapable of any sort of thought or consciousness. He goes on to state the in his rejecting the existence of matter he is not denying sense data or the possible existence of something independent of us. ... He is thus lead to the belief that the real basketball is an idea in the mind of God. ... So with this in mind Bekley goes on to explai...

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After being enlightened by the above proposed argument, though, that same materialist is logically forced to agree that, because the "material substratum1" itself can not be sensed, its existence can not be treated as knowledge. ... Berkley argues that such objects still exist because the mind of God is always perceiving them. Unlike the materialists' view, the immaterialist puts God at the center of his views. In truth, God is the "omnipresent external mind which knows and comprehends all things, and exhibits them to our view in such a manner and according to such rules as He H...

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Board of Education, "We have staked the very existence of our country on the faith that complete separation between the state and religion is best for the state and best for religion. ... Darwin's theory commonly understood as standing in primary conflict with the Bible tale of the creation of the world described in Genesis, which asserts that the world is only a few millennia old including that God created man and all of the species of animals in a single epoch. ... The head of the Intelligent Design movement is Phillip Johnson, a retired professor of law at the University of California,...

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Board of Education, "We have staked the very existence of our country on the faith that complete separation between the state and religion is best for the state and best for religion. ... Darwin's theory commonly understood as standing in primary conflict with the Bible tale of the creation of the world described in Genesis, which asserts that the world is only a few millennia old including that God created man and all of the species of animals in a single epoch. ... The head of the Intelligent Design movement is Phillip Johnson, a retired professor of law at the University of California,...

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For it is God whom they claim to be the central "knower" or thinker" who wills us to perceive certain things and not others. ... One of the main proponents of Idealism was Bishop Berkley who called objects within our vision simple "collections of ideas presented by God" (Popkin 89). ... This very lack of evidence is why debates over the very existence of God and between determinism and free will exist in the first place. ... His argument goes as follows: Premise 1: For a being to exist it must have the ability to think and create thoughts of its own existence. ... Does the fact that it dep...

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