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Friday, August 12, 2011

Is belief in God’s existence something that you just accept on faith? « Wintery Knight

Is belief in God’s existence something that you just accept on faith? « Wintery Knight: "The ultimate question remains why the universe exists rather than nothing. This question led Leibniz to postulate the existence of a metaphysically necessary being, which he identified as God. Leibniz’s critics, however, disputed this identification, claiming that the space-time universe itself may be the metaphysically necessary being. The discovery during this century that the universe began to exist, however, calls into question the universe’s status as metaphysically necessary, since any necessary being must be eternal in its existence."

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