Showing posts with label Theism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theism. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 09, 2009

Theism

Theism is the belief in one or more deities. More specifically it may also mean the belief that God/god(s) is immanent in the world, yet transcends it.

Theism comes from the Greek word (theos, θεός) meaning God, especially (with G3588) the supreme Divinity, the Godhead, the trinity.

Scientific evidence in support of Theism (full article)
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The term is attested in English from 1678, and was probably coined to contrast with atheism, a term that is attested from ca. 1587.

Views about the existence of deities are commonly divided into these categories

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Friday, November 23, 2007

Theism

Schematic diagram of the ‘irreducibly complex’ human eyeTheism is the belief in one or more deities. More specifically it may also mean the belief that God/god(s) is immanent in the world, yet transcends it.

Scientific evidence in support of Theism

  1. the new cosmology
    • the Big Bang theory
    • "creatio ex nihilo"
  2. anthropic fine-tuning
    • "A commonsense interpretation of the facts suggests that a superintellect has monkeyed with physics, as well as chemistry and biology, and that there are no blind forces worth speaking about in nature" -Fred Hoyle, "the Universe, Past and Present Reflections," Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 20 (1982)
  3. the origin of life and the origin of information necessary to bring life into existance
    • the information for life is stored in DNA and protein molecules
  4. irreducibly complex systems
    • X is too (complex, orderly, adaptive, apparently purposeful, and/or beautiful) to have occurred randomly or accidentally.
    • Therefore, X must have been created by a (sentient, intelligent, wise, and/or purposeful) being. God is that (sentient, intelligent, wise, and/or purposeful) being.
    • Therefore, God exists.
  5. the Cambrian explosion
    • twenty to thirty-five completely novel body plans come online in the Cambrian period.
  6. human consciousness
    • Humans have the capacity for:
      1. self-reflection
      2. representational art
      3. language
      4. creativity

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