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A 6 page paper. The writer responds to each of McCloskey’s arguments: cosmological and teleological. The paper also discusses the issue of evil. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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it is theism that is cold and comfortless, not atheism (McCloskey, 1968). Many Christians would probably agree with him that it would be a lot easier to not believe in
God because non-belief would also mean we do not have to follow Gods laws as they have been handed down through both Testaments. But, McCloskey describes a heartless, vindictive, manipulating
and vengeful god (McCloskey, 1968), certainly not the God of Christians. Who in their right minds would want to honor and serve that kind of god? McCloskey intended to
refute three specific arguments for the existence of God, the Supreme Being, the Creator. The three arguments are cosmological, teleological, and design. He uses the existence of evil in all
three of his arguments. McCloskey (1968) argues that proofs for the existence of God cannot be established. Lesson 18 in the PointeCast presentation (2011) identifies three ways to approach the
question of the existence of God. The Best Explanations Approach suggests that Gods existence if the best explanation for all that we observe in the universe. The Cumulative Case Approach
suggests there is no one single argument to prove Gods existence. Rather, when we put together arguments, i.e., cumulative, we find that the arguments for Gods existence is very strong.
The Minimalistic Concept of God is based on an argument for a moral intelligent creator of the universe. It does not argue for all attributes (Lesson 18, PointeCast Presentation, 2011).
The cumulative case is the strongest. It incorporates the cosmological argument, the teleological argument and the moral argument. The cosmological arguments concludes there is a Creator of the Universe; the
teleological arguments states that there is an intelligence and the Moral argument states that the Creator is morally perfect. The conclusion from these arguments is that a moral, personal, intelligent
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