... the child has not come closer to understanding fire completely with all it aspects. Applying this insight to God's existence we see that all the reasoning in the world cannot give us a better understanding of God's goodness if we have never experienced goodness. Looking into the flaws of these two ... the Teleology and Ontological philosophies. One reason for this is that the Cosmological argument is an a posteriori and deductive argument. An a posteriori argument depends on a principle or premise that can be known only by means of our experience of the world. Whereas ... , a deductive ...

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... almighty and powerful. Therefore why is there evil where did it come from and why is it still here. Which brings me to the discussion of what is the logical reasoning for the atheist not to believe in God. The logical challenge is not to believe in God. The challenge states that it would be almost unrealistic to believe in God ... -powerful and all loving why does He not eliminate evil? The existence of evil is seen as proof or evidence that there is no all powerful, all loving God. The deductive problem is the claim that there is a logical contradiction in asserting that God is all powe...

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... are known through reason, as opposed to Empiricists who believed they are known through experiences like sense perceptions and emotions. Rationalists believed in truths through our innate ideas. Empiricists used deductive reasoning putting greater emphasis on the inductive method. These different beliefs bread different conclusions about the mind, about the external world, and about God. In my paper, I will discuss Spinoza's rationalist ... ...

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