The Ontological Argument
In Our Time: Philosophy
The Design Argument, the Ontological Argument, and the Cosmological Argument
The design argument is probably the most familiar one, that look round the world, see how wonderfully designed it is. All these animals, plants, maybe the laws of nature beautifully tuned to produce this kind of world. They're all signs of intelligent design. The cosmological there must be a designer in that arguma, exactly. There's intelligent design, theremust be a designer, exactly. And then there's the fact that there is anything at all, rather than nothing, requires an explanation or an original cause. If we trace back the chain of causes, then ultimately we must come to a first cause, and that, for various reasons, is god.
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