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The aesthetic argument for god
The aesthetic argument is an argument by Plato for the existence of a transcendent realm of abstract ideas, which are more perfect than real-world examples of those ideas. Various observers have also argued that the experience of beauty is evidence of the existence of a God.
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Is beauty the path to God?
The most frequent invocation of the argument from beauty today involves the aesthetic experience one obtains from great literature, music or art. For many people the feeling of transcendence in a concert hall or museum approaches the religious in intensity.
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Criticisms of the aesthetic argument
- The argument assumes beauty is something immaterial instead of being a subjective neurological response to stimuli.
- A person's talent is assumed to be god's work and not his own hard work. ("How dare another human being make such beautiful music/poet...
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Teleological argument for god
The Teleological argument (also known as intelligent design argument) is an argument for the existence of God, an intelligent creator based on perceived evidence of intelligent design in the natural world.
Criticisms of the Teleological argument
- The argument does not prove that the intelligent designer is God.
- An intelligent designer must be far more complex than anything it is capable of designing, and the existence of life, let alone something more complex than it, is very impropable. ...
The Benefits Of Belief Are Not An Argument For God
Believing in a God may have lots of benefits. Atheists may be more neurotic compared to theists. But this, Watts believes, is not an argument for God. Because the lack or neuroticism does not prove the God hypothesis.
Another way to look at it is to say that “If ignora...
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