The big questions

All claims

• A beginningless series of past events would be an actually infinite number of things root claim
• A life-permitting universe is not improbable given theism root claim
• A life-permitting universe is very improbable given atheistic naturalism 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
• 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
• Every contingent fact has an explanation (the Principle of Sufficient Reason) root claim
• Evidence that is much more probable under one hypothesis than under a rival strongly favors that hypothesis (the likelihood principle) root claim
• God does not exist 2 arguments
• God exists 3 arguments
• 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, 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 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
• The BCCF has an explanation derived claim
• The external world exists 1 argument
• 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 1 argument
• The universe has a cause of its beginning derived claim
• There are capable persons who are nonresistant nonbelievers root claim
• 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 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