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Ontological Argument for the Existance of God

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-20 4:28

1. God is that than which nothing greater can be conceived.
2. It is greater to be necessary than not.
3. God must be necessary.
4. God exists

Logically speaking, God MUST exist. But what God actually IS, no one really knows. He can be energy, mass, or some sort of spiritual being. All of these three fulfill the description: cannot be created nor destroyed.

Name: Anonymous 2006-11-22 19:38

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the reason the highest degree granted in those fields is called a PhD is because "philosophy" used to be the same thing as all those things, and "doctor" was someone committed to knowledge.  they've clearly separated now, but kept the name of the degree the same.  so, yes, science has its roots in philosophy, but it branched off when they decided 'hey, lets go find ways to test our ideas.' and started getting somewhere, scientifically.

"since when does philosophy deal with objects of physical nature?"
the tone of this question rests on the assumption that there are things which are non-physical, or more specifically (and absurdly), of all the things philosophers have argued about, none of them are physical.

why can't logic, morals, ethics be examined and explained scientifically?  morals and ethics are just social rules.  do you think humans invented social interaction?  do you think other animals dont have analogous (though simpler) rules?  they do, and we study theirs.  what makes logic work doesn't cease to exist in the absence of human thought.  whether or not something is really true or false doesn't depend on mankind.

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