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Benett, Yves. "How Social Science Research Methods Might Provide Scientific Evidence For The Existence Of God." Christian Higher Education 10.2 (2011): 132-139. Academic Search Complete. Web. 16 Dec. 2015.
This article seeks to argue and find evidence that there is a God. Through the use of social science and research, this article focuses on establishing the validity and reliability of evidence in social research and concludes that the case study approach is valid for providing empirical scientific evidence for the existence of God. This work is appropriate to use in this essay because it shows that the belief in God, and even science, is mainly due to faith. Without faith, both science and God would not exist.

Bloom, Paul. “Is God an Accident?” Fields of Reading: Motives for Writing. Ed. Nancy R. Comley, David Hamilton, Carl H. Klaus, …show more content…

He states that God is not dead, due to the belief in him many individuals have, but he is an accident. This work is appropriate to use in this essay because it shows that people see a purpose in everything, even when it is not there. This work also quotes Karl Marx which he states that “humans have adopted religion as an opiate, to sooth the pain of existence” (196).

Jong, Jonathan. "Ernest Becker's Psychology Of Religion Forty Years On: A View From Social Cognitive Psychology." Zygon: Journal Of Religion & Science 49.4 (2014): 875- 889. Academic Search Complete. Web. 16 Dec. 2015.
Jong wrote about Ernest Becker’s views on religion and the cognitive science of psychology. With defining religion and proposing hypothesizes of how it came about, this work would be adequate to use because it proposes that one must first believe in something negative, like death or a disaster, then they could believe in God. This would also support the idea that people create a God to deal with everyday

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“If what we believe is what we see is what we do is who we are, there’s no getting away from religion. We all want to know who we are, where and how we fit in, and what our lives might yet mean. And in this sense, religion might be the best word we have for seeing, naming, confessing and really waking up to what we’re after in all we do, of becoming aware of what’s going on in our minds.”

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It is a convenient and comforting respond to an unfortunate and devastating ‘fate’. The pain becomes bearable to those who suffer because of the idea that it is all being a part of a bigger plan, it is more than just an individual. However, this concept is built upon an irrational fundamental attitude, “the surrender of self to the ordering power of society,” (54) a problem that Berger expressed his concerns with. Another problem would be that the use of God as a shield works on believers, but not on nonbelievers. The question “why bad things happen to good people” still cannot be answered for the nonbelievers, a common critique of religion itself.

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A common questioning of a higher power beyond the physical realm lingers in society: Who and what is God?. However, many of these theological questions cannot be answered until we, of course, die. Due to human’s innate curiosity to understand the forces beyond their own, especially in terms of religion, humans find their own reasons to believe in God in the process of discovery. Religion is a sense of belief and worship to praise a higher power (God), and it provides a guide for human beings to have the opportunity to come together and live as one image of God’s children. “Imagine There’s No Heaven” is an article in which Salman Rushdie, the author, presents an atheistic view where religion is pointless, and a higher being is non-existent.

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Ironically, the most memorable encounter I've had with religion is when I started to question my faith and God's existence. I will probably have more of a Christian approach to issues this class discusses, but I will be respectful of others theologies. I have never lived in a world where God doesn’t exist. Every Sunday since I was a kid my mother brought me to a protestant church. Naturally, as every child raised in an Chritsian home, I accepted God as truth.

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The focus of this report is to inform students on religions, which are widely practiced throughout the world. The report gives basic definition, vocabulary and talks about some of the questions that come to mind when people are exploring various religions or trying to find answers. The paper defines religion as worshiping a divine power that no one can see and who controls and is the creator of everything and everyone. This power is known as God to most people. Although there are many religions that came to this world and are yet to come and all religions have their own ideas about who or what god and what he is capable of.

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One of the simplest questions were is the sacred doctrine part of science and the does God exist. The five proofs of Gods existence are motion, nature of the efficient cause, possibility and necessity, gradation, and the governance of the world. One of the five proof that i found interasting was the nature of the efficient cause. We see things in nature that might look like they

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First of all, Freud and Jung saw religion as a product of the psyche since “(b)oth were committed to advancing a new framework for explaining human behavior, one that pictured humans in terms of the relation between a conscious but fragile ego and the unconscious” (Paden 48). In their teachings, humans are not only minds but also psychological beings with defensive and neurotic egos who may choose to suppress emotions only to be discovered with the art of psychoanalysis. Furthermore, Jung and Freud view religion as “fragments of one’s unresolved childhood memories (and)…positive mediators between the ego and a deeper part of the self” (Paden 49). In this way, the idea of the psyche is all encompassing; religious thought does not tell us what

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What is a mental set? In psychology, a mental set can be defined as a framework for thinking about a problem. It can be shaped by either a habit or by one’s desires. Mental sets can make it easy to solve a variety of problems, but attaching a mental set in the wrong situation can inhibit problem-solving, creative conclusions, and innovative solutions. Now that we have covered the definitive meanings behind the following psychological terms, we can conclude that egocentric believer, is not only incorrect in their approach with the atheist, but we should now have a better insight in identifying that there are more than one type of believers among

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The cornerstone of Friedrich Nietzsche’s philosophical view is centered on the idea that traditional ethics and values were on the verge of collapse. He believed the source of that collapse was a rise in disbelief in God. He believed that the cause of growing disbelief came from the disconnection of modern life from traditional belief that appealed to God for its validity. Nietzsche thought that the “death” of God left humanity essentially purposeless.

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“God is dead! And we have killed him” is a famous statement by a captivating and wise German philosopher by the name of Fredrick Nietzsche. His work is amongst the most influential and brilliant philosophical works of our time. It aims to get us to reevaluate our existing principles and conceptions. In his work Daybreak, Nietzsche challenges our understanding of what constitutes the self.

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When it comes to the existence of a god or gods, there are three kinds of people in this world: Those who believe, those who do not believe, and those who do not concern themselves with the subject. In Yann Martel’s Life of Pi, it is promised that Pi Patel’s narrative “will make you believe in God” (X). In Life of Pi, there are two stories by this protagonist: Pi’s “dry, yeastless factuality” (63) tale of survival and the “better story” (63). Martel does not indicate to the reader which story actually occurred, and neither can be proven as the legitimate one, which parallels the arguments between the existence of a god and scientific reason.

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Freud (1927) goes on to say that religion is an outgrowth of childlike helplessness; God is a manifestation of a child longing for a father. Freud (1927) states that the gods retain their threefold task: “they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them” (p. 18). Freud (1927) posits that if religion had succeeded in “making the majority of mankind happy, in comforting them, in reconciling them to life and in making them into vehicles of civilization, no one would dream of attempting to alter the existing conditions” (p. 37). He states that religion has lost part of its influence over humans because of the advances of science (Freud, 1927). The scientific

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Therefore, revealing the great significance religion still has on some people’s lives. However, when comparing time frames we can emphasise the huge contrast in thoughts and opinions on religion. Not only expressed through thoughts and emotions, it’s not hard to notice the loss in interest about religion. Divulging in a public matter, Friedrich Nietzsche’s expressed, “I cannot believe in a god who wants to be praised all the time.”

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