Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God

Our server costs ~$56 per month to run. Please consider donating or becoming a Patron to help keep the site running. Help us gain new members by following us on Twitter and liking our page on Facebook!

Current time: August 15, 2026, 8:29 am

Thread Rating:

0 Vote(s) - 0 Average
1
2
3
4
5

Thread Modes

Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God

bennyboy Offline

Senior Member

Religious Views: agnostic

Posts: 9147
Threads: 83
Joined: May 22, 2013
Reputation: 45

#15

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God

October 11, 2014 at 8:04 pm

If you are going to allow any quantity, X, to exist without needing to be created, or to support without needing to be supported, then should you a) not knowing what X is, call it God; b) not knowing what X is, start with the assumption that it is the universe itself?

I'm not a huge fan of Occam's razor, but adding variables for no good reason seems like a bad idea.

Find

« Next Oldest | Next Newest »

Messages In This Thread

Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Dolorian - October 11, 2014 at 1:50 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by LastPoet - October 11, 2014 at 1:54 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Jackie - October 28, 2014 at 9:42 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by vorlon13 - October 11, 2014 at 2:00 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by downbeatplumb - October 11, 2014 at 2:06 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by genkaus - October 11, 2014 at 2:34 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Dolorian - October 11, 2014 at 2:50 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - October 11, 2014 at 2:39 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Anomalocaris - October 11, 2014 at 3:25 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by vorlon13 - October 11, 2014 at 4:48 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Alex K - October 11, 2014 at 2:39 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by genkaus - October 11, 2014 at 3:06 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Dolorian - October 11, 2014 at 10:26 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Neo-Scholastic - October 11, 2014 at 10:39 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by genkaus - October 11, 2014 at 11:05 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by LastPoet - October 11, 2014 at 3:10 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Minimalist - October 11, 2014 at 3:14 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Minimalist - October 11, 2014 at 3:27 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by bennyboy - October 11, 2014 at 8:04 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Thumpalumpacus - October 11, 2014 at 11:10 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Mudhammam - October 12, 2014 at 12:23 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by HopOnPop - October 12, 2014 at 3:14 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Dolorian - October 12, 2014 at 11:31 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by HopOnPop - October 12, 2014 at 6:10 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Neo-Scholastic - October 13, 2014 at 5:40 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Mudhammam - October 13, 2014 at 6:12 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by genkaus - October 13, 2014 at 6:19 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by HopOnPop - October 13, 2014 at 8:34 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Dolorian - October 13, 2014 at 9:15 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by HopOnPop - October 14, 2014 at 3:18 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by bennyboy - October 14, 2014 at 7:11 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by HopOnPop - October 14, 2014 at 11:01 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by bennyboy - October 15, 2014 at 6:05 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by HopOnPop - October 15, 2014 at 6:33 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by bennyboy - October 15, 2014 at 8:00 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by HopOnPop - October 16, 2014 at 3:28 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by bennyboy - October 16, 2014 at 9:29 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by HopOnPop - October 16, 2014 at 2:22 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by bennyboy - October 12, 2014 at 8:30 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Jackie - October 12, 2014 at 6:16 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by genkaus - October 12, 2014 at 6:31 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Dolorian - October 13, 2014 at 9:44 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Neo-Scholastic - October 14, 2014 at 11:10 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by HopOnPop - October 15, 2014 at 12:59 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Neo-Scholastic - October 15, 2014 at 8:37 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Chas - October 16, 2014 at 7:57 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by The Grand Nudger - October 16, 2014 at 9:56 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by bennyboy - October 16, 2014 at 11:33 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by The Grand Nudger - October 16, 2014 at 12:45 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by bennyboy - October 16, 2014 at 8:21 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by HopOnPop - October 16, 2014 at 10:52 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by bennyboy - October 16, 2014 at 11:34 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by The Grand Nudger - October 17, 2014 at 9:25 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by bennyboy - October 27, 2014 at 10:32 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Cheerful Charlie - October 27, 2014 at 8:44 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Surgenator - October 27, 2014 at 11:46 pm

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by bennyboy - October 28, 2014 at 12:34 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Surgenator - October 28, 2014 at 12:39 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by bennyboy - October 28, 2014 at 5:02 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by Neo-Scholastic - October 28, 2014 at 8:29 am

RE: Ed Feser's Aristotelian Proof of the Existence of God - by bennyboy - October 28, 2014 at 9:18 am

Possibly Related Threads...
Thread		Author	Replies	Views	Last Post
	The Cosmological Proof	LinuxGal	53	15233	September 24, 2023 at 12:24 pm Last Post: LinuxGal
	Proving the Existence of a First Cause	Muhammad Rizvi	3	1949	June 23, 2023 at 5:50 pm Last Post: awty
	The existence of God	smithd	314	76181	November 23, 2022 at 10:44 pm Last Post: LinuxGal
	Veridican Argument for the Existence of God	The Veridican	14	5332	January 16, 2022 at 4:48 pm Last Post: brewer
	[Serious] Criticism of Aquinas' First Way or of the Proof of God from Motion.	spirit-salamander	75	19911	May 3, 2021 at 12:18 pm Last Post: Neo-Scholastic
	A 'proof' of God's existence - free will	mrj	54	16856	August 9, 2020 at 10:25 am Last Post: Sal
	Best arguments for or against God's existence	mcc1789	22	7133	May 22, 2019 at 9:16 am Last Post: The Grand Nudger
	Proof that I'm immortal	Shantideva	64	14801	September 11, 2018 at 7:03 pm Last Post: Angrboda
	The Argument Against God's Existence From God's Imperfect Choice	Edwardo Piet	53	18824	June 4, 2018 at 2:06 pm Last Post: The Grand Nudger
	The Objective Moral Values Argument AGAINST The Existence Of God	Edwardo Piet	58	25686	May 2, 2018 at 2:06 pm Last Post: Amarok

View a Printable Version

Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)

Login
Username:
Password:	Lost Password?
	Remember me