CORE #05 – Good Reasons to Believe in God (Part 3)

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  1. Patric says:

    What about Fr. Robert Spitzer’s philosophical proof for a beginning of past time in his book New Proofs for the Existence of God? What do you think of that? Thanks.

    • John DeRosa says:

      Thanks for the comment, Patric! Perhaps you could summarize the argument? I have a feeling Feser’s critiques apply to Spitzer’s rendition. The whole problem with the philosophical arguments is that if presentism is true (only the present moment exists), there is no actual infinite number of moments (since they don’t all exist at once). So, any argument proceeding to show the absurdity of actual infinities can’t go through if an eternal universe (on presentism) doesn’t actually entail an actual infinite.

      I’m open to being wrong on this though if someone can sort it out for me. Feser leaves it open ended in this article as well (he’s open to being convinced otherwise): https://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2016/09/yeah-but-is-it-actually-actually.html

      • Adam says:

        Personally, outside of the contingency argument I believe the design argument from low entropy by Alexander pruss to be one of the most effective because it doesn’t fall prey to the multiverse objection like fine-tuning. Dustin Crummett”s psychophysical harmony is president good too.

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