Can you formulate a logical argument for the existence of God?

Question

I can’t

Answer 1

Well, no. But in fact, that doesn't really mater.

Religion (mythos) isn't *supposed* to be subject to the tests of scientific rationalism.

And the modernist drive to re-cast religion in the light of "reason" (logos) has caused a lot of problems.

For example - bible literalism is a fairly recent thing - it's a modernist attempt to change religious thought within Christianity *as a reaction to* our abandonment of the mystical and mythical.

And the types of religious expression that garner the most scorn are those what came into being *precisely* because of the bleak inner landscape brought about through science and modernism in the last century; the working conditions of the factories, the application of science to killing vast numbers of people in WWI and WWII.

Before modernism, religions that had prospered served, among other things, to help people adjust to essential limitations, to accept things as they were. The mythical, mystical and ritualistic had given people a sense of the transcendent value of the past, a way to see the (slower) changes in the world as something that fit in with a "grand plan", and so were not alien..

But the changing world, the world that only looked forward, could not be served by that kind of religious thought. The Western world was breaking free of the previous limitations on development and discovery, and that affected everyone, including religious people. A new way of being religious had to be found.

Two things arose from that need: fundamentalism and Pentecostalism. The first was an attempt to apply the rules of proof that work so well in scientific rationalism to religion (which only produces bad science), and the second is a reactionary rejection of rationalism.

Things don't' develop in a vacuum. We never start with a "clean slate". What has gone before affects what happens now.

Modernism was the midwife for the very kinds of religious developments that the modern scientific community expresses such contempt for.

And, quite predictably, the more that fundamentalists are criticized, the more entrenched they become.

Anyone with a scientific mind ought to be able to see it coming. After all, Newton said it a long time ago.

"For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction"

And observation would tell us that the power of mythos is still very much alive, or people would not flock to movies lke "Lord of the Rings". Ignoring that will not get you what you want.

Answer 2

You can't prove that there is a God but you cannot prove there is no God too. It will take up much space to explain everything so i will list the points. If you understand, it is good. If you dont, then i will also understand why you cannot formulate a logical argument for the existence of God. If you want the full explaination, put down your email.

1) The Cosmological Argument
2) The Teleological Argument
3)The Anthropological Argument
4) The Ontological argument
5) The Moral Argument
6)The Biological argument
7) The Historical Argument
8)The Christological Argument
9) The biblilogical Argument
10) the Argument from Congruity

This is only the points... If you really want to know ... send me an email with your email address so i can attach a document to you.

Answer 3

neither can I

and "where do u think u came from", "look at the bible", "your being"and "You're here" dont cut it.
"take a look around u" disproves more than proves god.
if someone has a logical argument to prove him, i'm willing to listen.

of course if u take him as a fictional character u can guess he exists coz people both thousands of years ago and now need some higher being to believe in.

to the guy above me; someone else linked to a banana video to prove god yesterday and i think u should see it. q went like:"is this proof of god's existence?" or something like that. check my answers.

Answer 4

Try the biography and writings from and about Issac Newton on the matter of GOD -- he is likely one of the most intelligent humans to live in many generations and he is adamant and eloquent about the truth of GOD.

An additional, step is not to believe you are more intelligent than all the generations before you. We have more technology now but we are not more intelligent or wiser than the millennia of humans that have the consensus there is GOD... the libraries are filled with the discussions of this age old question.

Answer 5

yes but bare with me, and no I'm not religious in any sense of the word..

Simply take the time to look around you particularly in Nature and you will see a definite intelligence at work. now some of this is often written off as Darwins survival of the fittest theory but even Darwin himself wrote some differing opinions to his own theories later in Life which support the idea of the presence of intelligence, this is rarely pointed out by those who choose not to see it..

So instead of listing clear examples of intelligence at work in the animal kingdom how about this one for contemplation. I assume you have had coconut before ? Maybe not so I'll explain. Now If you want to just eat a coconut like the monkey you can smash it off a rock to crack it open but unfortunately you tend to loose the milk by this method. However, if you look at it there are three distinct and similar sized hole marks like a bowling ball on the nut. if you puncture these you can easily pour the milk from the nut. Now if you puncture one it will not pour because of pressure (ask your science buddies to explain exactly why) even two makes the milk just drip. Two similar air holes and a third to pour from is perfect. Now some smart guy might say that these are the marks left from where the nut grows on the tree, true but it is not necessary to have three points for it to grow in the same way, so why does it conveniently have them ???

I know this is a simple explanation but as I said, take the time to look at nature in particular and you will see evidence of intelligence everywhere. And not survival of the fittest, the coconut the not have to pour right in order to survive, lol

good luck

Answer 6

To belive in God you need faith.
Faith is the assured expectation of things hoped for, the evident demonstration of realities though not beheld. Heb11:1
God's existence can be seen through this verse Rom 1:20
For his invisible [qualities] are clearly seen from the world’s creation onward, because they are perceived by the things made, even his eternal power and Godship, so that they are inexcusable

Answer 7

Sure there are many ways to prove God exist and one of them is logic. Science points to God. Creation itself points to a creator. The word of God point to him. He has witnesses all over the planet. People who know him. The mericals he has done are proven in the histories of many cultures. Mosus and the like were employed by him. He has destoryed entire cities and blessed nations. He is a helper to the widow and the orphan. He has been seen on the earth by Mosus. He spoke with Aberham face to face. We wreasled Jocob. He was seen in the fire with 3 of his Friends in times of old. I have seen him in the strangest of people. And i myself know him. Can logic prove God exist. Well can you first prove Logic exist.

Answer 8

yes i can---God is the ONLY logical explanation for everything, the way we work, the way the world works, God can perform miracles i have seen them. if u open up your eyes and just look around u will know that there is a God. if u open your heart and let Him in u can feel Him. and if u open your mind u can understand Him. and then u will begin to get to know Him

Answer 9

No. In all the history of human communications, no one has ever been able to make a sound argument that god(s) exist.

Answer 10

Yes just look around you at the beautiful flowers and the birds and the bees, eyc etc! The times I've read that BS
The answer is no I cant and neither can anyone else.