Yes or No, By Peter KreeftThe Problem of Evil, Dialog Five pp. 35-42

1. Yes or No, By Peter KreeftThe Problem of Evil, Dialog Five pp. 35-42 • Argument of Design and The First Cause Argument and Can you prove that God Exist? by Peter Kreeft (Found in the website documents/articles) • Summarized Version of Mere Christianity Book 1 RIGHT AND WRONG AS A CLUE TO THE MEANING OF THE UNIVERSE(Found in the website documents/articles)

2. Can you prove God exists?

3. Five clues to the existence of God • The Argument from Motion • The Argument from Existence • The Argument from death • The Argument from goodness • The Argument from design

4. The Argument from Design

5. The Argument from Motion

6. The Argument from Existence

7. The Argument from Goodness The Argument from Goodness

8. The Argument from Goodness The Argument from Death

9. Religion God Science

10. Creation does not need supernatural intervention • “According to M-theory, ours is not the only universe. Instead, M-theory predicts that a great many universes were created out of nothing. Their creation does not require the intervention of some supernatural being or God.” (Hawking)

11. The universe needs something beyond itself to cause it to exist... • Returning to realities which have a beginning, if a reality – say, our universe – has a beginning, then that beginning point represents the point at which the universe came into existence (including its physical time). Prior to that point the physical universe did not exist – in other words, it was nothing – absolute nothing.

12. The universe needs something beyond itself to cause it to exist... • Now HERE is where the problem of something coming from nothing appears on the scene. If the universe was truly nothing, and if from nothing only nothing can come, then the universe needs something beyond itself to cause it to exist – to bring it from nothing to something. Without this transcendent cause (Creator), the universe could not bring itself from nothing to something, because it was nothing. (Spitzer)

13. Religion God Theologians M-Theory Scientists

14. The First Cause Argument

15. The First Cause Argument The argument is basically very simple, natural, intuitive, and commonsensical. We have to become complex and clever in order to doubt or dispute it. It is based on an instinct of mind that we all share: the instinct that says everything needs an explanation. Nothing just is without a reason why it is. Peter Kreeft , The First Cause Argument

16. The First Cause Argument: No First Cause?? If there is no first cause, then the universe is like a great chain with many links; each link is held up by the link above it, but the whole chain is held up by nothing. Peter Kreeft, The First Cause Argument

17. Origin of Life?? No Beginning

18. Origin of Life First Cause =Uncaused Cause God

19. Four Versions of the First Cause Argument The Argument of Motion The Argument of Existence The Argument of Death The Argument of Goodness (Perfection)

20. The Argument of Motion First, he argues that the chain of movers must have a first mover because nothing can move itself. (Moving here refers to any kind of change, not just change of place.) (Kreeft)

21. The Argument of Existence Second, he expands the proof from proving a cause of motion to proving a cause of existence, or efficient cause. He argues that if there were no first efficient cause, or cause of the universe's coming into being, then there could be no second causes…. (Kreeft)

22. The Argument of Death Third, he argues that if there were no eternal, necessary, and immortal being, if everything had a possibility of not being, of ceasing to be, then eventually this possibility of ceasing to be would be realized for everything. In other words, if everything could die, then, given infinite time, everything would eventually die. (Kreeft)

23. The Argument of Goodness (Perfection) Fourth, there must also be a first cause of perfection or goodness or value. We rank things as more or less perfect or good or valuable.

24. Debate: Mr. Roncal (together with some nice students) vs. the Class • The Universe exist therefore God exists.