Illuminati Research Paper

The Illuminati can be classified as Bavarian Illuminati and contemporary Illuminati. Bavarian Illuminati was an underground society in Bavaria, Germany; it was founded by Adam Weishaupt in 1776. Bavarian Illuminati’s history and information are public, and it can be found easily on the internet. The contemporary Illuminati is known as a secret society which allegedly controls most of the governments; their objective is to establish a New World Order by running an one world government. In contrast, most histories and information of the contemporary Illuminati are secret. Bavarian Illuminati is purported as the origin of the contemporary Illuminati, however, no reliable evidence is found to prove the relationship between Bavarian Illuminati and

The information of the Bavarian Illuminati can easily be found; however, the information of the contemporary Illuminati cannot be. Also, there is no concrete evidence showing that the contemporary Illuminati is evolved from the Bavarian Illuminati; most of the conspiracy theorists just claim the Bavarian Illuminati survived from the ban of the Bavarian government, the theorists cannot provide evidences to support their claims. Even though the existence of the Illuminati is unknown, through the examination of secrecy, we concluded that if Illuminati exists, then it is a very secret society. Also, based on the calculation of the explanatory scores, the scenario of the non-existence of the Illuminati has higher explanatory score than the scenario that the Illuminati exists. So, the existence of the Illuminati is not plausible due to the political events which were examined in the explanatory scores calculation. However, in the expected gain calculation, the expected gain of believing in the existence of the Illuminati is higher than the expected gain of not believing in the existence of the Illuminati, which indicates that regardless of the existences of the Illuminati, it is rational to believe that the Illuminati exists. Lastly, although there is no evidence proving the existence of the Illuminati, there are a huge propaganda about the Illuminati in the music industry and