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Atheism And Evidence For God's Existence

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Musallam Almashali
Professor William L. Blizek
RELI3500-006
March 12, 2018
Atheism and Evidence for God's Existence
Introduction
The world is divided into different groups of people, who have their own point of views about several things. Religion is one of the prominent points of discussion among group of people. Some of them do believe in religion and existence of God. But there are groups; which do not believe in any kind of religion, and they also don’t believe in existence of God. These groups of people, who do not believe in God’s existence, are called atheists. The atheists believe that there are not enough and concrete evidence is there to prove the God’s existence. They do not believe that this universe is created by any God or any …show more content…

In recent times, it is one of the hot topics to discuss among people that do God exists or not. And answers vary as per the overall culture, beliefs and religion of people around the globe. The most important part is that some arguments and evidences have been provided to say that God existence is reality, or more probably God does exist. Some of these arguments and evidences would be described in further analysis to see that in how many ways, people believe in existence of God especially from the people, who believe in religion of Islam. The Islamist point of view regarding existence of God would also be described in detail. Here are some of the evidences from different …show more content…

Thomas Aquinas regarding God’s existence, as he was one of very first people, who tried to prove that God does exist. In 13th century, he tried to prove God’s existence by describing five points. The first proof was to give arguments from the movement/motion. As per this point, he said that everything which moves in this universe, is moved by something else, so it is evident that would be first Mover, a God who creates these motions and movements. The second point stated that nothing can be there by itself, there must be the first cause, and that first cause is God. Third point stated that when there are physical things around, and these things have been created by someone, and that someone is God. The fourth point described that everything in being in this world, have some kind of goodness. Like, humans can be bad or good, but perfection won’t be there, so there must be perfection at its maximum, and that perfection would be found in God. The last point claimed that all things in this world are designed in a particular order, and some designer could only do that, and that designer is God (Stefon,

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