Then, digging deeper, we shall try our hand at a critique of his critique of religion, of resurrecting a natural belief in God. ... What Hume seeks to show is the failure of this argument to establish the type of deity that belief in a particular providence or divine action must require one to assert. ... Causes are to be known from effects alone; to ascribe to it any superfluous qualities goes beyond the bounds of strict logical reasoning. ... Hume countered this thinking because it constructed belief and certainty out of mere possibility. ... No one character fully presents the force of Hume...

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There has never been a valid argument establishing God as the 'First Cause' according to David Hume (Titus and Smith, 344). ... Remaining always the skeptic, Hume's argument stops short of claiming that God does not exist, which would be atheism. ... Hume continued by asserting that literature had much to do with public perception of God and of His existence. ... Aquinas' argument, an admirable model of deductive reasoning, is lacking in scientific validity. ... Many take comfort in the belief that there is one Creator who still exists in the universe, a perfect being who w...

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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. ... Spinoza had a very different belief of God, unlike the beliefs of philosophers before him. ... One of the many people that would have a problem with Spinoza's philosophy, would be Hume, a known Empiricist. According to Hume's analysis of our belief in cause-effect relationships, we can have no knowledge of God. ...

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Of those three arguments the Cosmology theory seems to take the better of the other two arguments to give it the strongest line of reasoning and understanding. ... This line of reasoning however offers a very weak stance on the all-important question of the existence of God. ... David Hume adequately states why this is the circumstance when he said, "From watching a hair grow, can we infer how people grow?" ... 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 ...

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