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The "ontological argument" says that
{ 1 } - the mere concept of a supremely perfect being requires that this being exist.
{ 2 } - the order and design that we discover in the world shows that there must be a supreme mind who formed the world.
{ 3 } - the mere existence of the world requires an explanation -- and this explanation can only be God.
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The "ontological argument" says that
{ 1 } - the mere concept of a supremely perfect being requires that this being exist.
{ 2 } - the order and design that we discover in the world shows that there must be a supreme mind who formed the world.
{ 3 } - the mere existence of the world requires an explanation -- and this explanation can only be God.
St. Anselm in the early Middle Ages first proposed the ontological argument. Plantinga defends a more sophisticated form of the argument.
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The "ontological argument" says that
{ 1 } - the mere concept of a supremely perfect being requires that this being exist.
{ 2 } - the order and design that we discover in the world shows that there must be a supreme mind who formed the world.
{ 3 } - the mere existence of the world requires an explanation -- and this explanation can only be God.
This is the "teleological argument" (also called the "argument from design").
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The "ontological argument" says that
{ 1 } - the mere concept of a supremely perfect being requires that this being exist.
{ 2 } - the order and design that we discover in the world shows that there must be a supreme mind who formed the world.
{ 3 } - the mere existence of the world requires an explanation -- and this explanation can only be God.
This is the "cosmological argument."
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