The Ontological Argument,” St. Aquinas, “The Cosmological Argument,” Paley, “The Teleological Argument”. Do you think any of the arguments are especially convincing? Are they all simply awful? First, write a quick impression of what you thought about each argument. Then, pick one argument in particular – what did you really like (or dislike!) about it, and why. What do you think the author really assumed about god, and what kind of being god is? Are they making good assumptions about god, scripture, the world, or even logic? And finally, do you really think we can do anything with these proofs for the existence of god? Do they prove anything? Are they just preaching to the choir (so to speak)? Or do they actually help us understand something about god and/or the world?
