(October 1, 2024 at 9:22 am)Modern Atheism Wrote: There is a thread about the modal ontological argument, but not about the classical one. Here is the original ontological argument as formulated by Sain Anselm:
By definition, God is the greatest being that can be conceived of.
By whom? Seems like treacherous theological ground to limit your deity to the cognitive faculties of the mortals that grovel beneath it.
Quote:But if God did not exist in reality, we could imagine a being that had all the other properties of God but that also existed in reality, and this being would be greater than God.
Umm.. No. If God exists only in our imaginations then this other critter, which also exists only in our imaginations, isn't any better. The rest of this argument fails from there on down.
It's just a bunch of theists playing make-believe and adding words like "modal" and "ontology" to make it seem legit.
