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The Watch Analogy In order to explain his teleological argument, Paley offers an analogy of finding a watch on a heath. He argues thusly: you find a watch on an abandoned heath, far from any human interactio...

Firstly, we must begin with what Hume defines miracles as. Hume states that a miracle is “a transgression of a law of nature by a particular volition of the deity or by the interposition of some invisible ag...

Anselm offers a reduction ad absurdum argument. This is an argument whose denial leads to a contradiction or some other absurdity. Anselm’s Argument from Proslogian 2 is as follows: Premise 1: Firstly, we mu...

When talking about morality, it is natural to think that there exist certain moral truths. That is, when it comes to morality, some things are true, and some things ae false, and that's all there is to it. S...

God is transcendent and therefore some of His actions and the events that He allows are unfathomable and cannot be fully comprehended by the finite human mind. However, Theists believe that God has a justifi...