Week 8

Cosmological and Design Argument

This week, we are focusing on the Cosmological argument and the Design argument. These arguments represent how one can think about religion from a philosophical perspective.

In your blog, I would like you to reflect more generally on what, if anything, you think philosophy might contribute to the understanding of religion. Think about i) whether you think these arguments might change someone's religious convictions, and ii) whether there is anything about religious experience that is left out of these arguments (for example, some people might say that faith is important for religious conviction, yet of course faith has no role in philosophical argument).

Well, to someone like me, definitely it does. Since I’m not a religious person, I can think outside the box and think of other possibilities. Philosophy is the religion’s worst nightmare. The fact that philosophy questions the existence of just about everything and everything else, it freaks people out.  For those people these topics are not up for discussion, so therefore there’s no way that it would change their mind, even if you bring forward a good argument, they won’t want to hear it or have an open mind to it. To debate with Christianity is a lost fight right from the beginning. Faith is the same as Trust; it’s why I think it doesn’t belong on a philosophical argument. I believe that this is main reason why it’s a lost and predictable argument. Faith gets on the way of having a real discussion or to even have one.