The big questions

All claims

• A beginningless series of past events would be an actually infinite number of things root claim
• A necessary being whose activity explains all contingent facts exists derived claim
• A person cannot be in a personal relationship with God without believing that God exists root claim
• A universe that has, on average, been expanding throughout its history cannot be past-eternal (the Borde–Guth–Vilenkin theorem) root claim
• A wholly good being always eliminates evil as far as it can root claim
• An actually infinite number of things cannot exist root claim
• An omniscient, wholly good being would prevent the occurrence of any intense suffering it could, unless it could not do so without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse root claim
• Any explanation of the BCCF must involve the causal activity of a necessary being root claim
• At least two external objects exist derived claim
• Every contingent fact has an explanation (the Principle of Sufficient Reason) root claim
• Evil exists root claim
• God does not exist 3 arguments
• God exists 3 arguments
• Hands are objects external to our minds root claim
• Here is another hand root claim
• Here is one hand root claim
• Honest doubters and isolated nontheists are not resisting a personal relationship with God root claim
• If a necessary being whose activity explains all contingent facts exists, then God exists root claim
• If a perfectly loving God exists, God is open to a personal relationship with every finite person capable of one root claim
• If a perfectly loving God exists, no capable person is a nonresistant nonbeliever derived claim
• If God exists, evil does not exist derived claim
• If God exists, God is omnipotent and wholly good root claim
• If God exists, God is perfectly loving root claim
• If prolonged reflection reveals no outweighing good served by an evil, that is good (defeasible) evidence that there is none root claim
• If the fine-tuning of the universe is due to design, then God exists root claim
• If the universe has a cause of its beginning, then a personal, transcendent creator exists root claim
• No perfectly loving God exists derived claim
• Our sensory experiences are richly detailed, coherent, and lawfully ordered root claim
• Our universe has, on average, been expanding throughout its history root claim
• The BCCF has an explanation derived claim
• The external world exists 2 arguments
• The fine-tuning of the universe is due to design derived claim
• The fine-tuning of the universe is due to physical necessity, chance, or design root claim
• The fine-tuning of the universe is not due to chance root claim
• The fine-tuning of the universe is not due to physical necessity root claim
• The fundamental constants and quantities of our universe are fine-tuned for the existence of life root claim
• The real-world hypothesis explains the order and coherence of our experience better than any skeptical rival (dreams, demons, simulations) root claim
• The universe began to exist 2 arguments
• The universe has a cause of its beginning derived claim
• There are capable persons who are nonresistant nonbelievers 1 argument
• There are evils — such as a fawn burning slowly to death in a remote forest fire — for which prolonged reflection reveals no outweighing good root claim
• There are former believers who lost their belief through honest inquiry and would welcome its return root claim
• There are no limits to what an omnipotent being can do root claim
• There are people who have never so much as encountered the idea of God root claim
• There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse 1 argument
• There is a Big Conjunctive Contingent Fact (BCCF): the conjunction of all contingent facts root claim
• We are justified in believing the hypothesis that best explains our evidence root claim
• Whatever begins to exist has a cause of its beginning root claim