*This post was copied from my original blog on Google Docs*
I thought that that argument about if God exists or not was really interesting. The debate between Hume and Descartes definitely touched on that. The side that I argued for, Hume, believed that the existence of God is uncertain, because we must use our senses to determine that He does exist. He thought that reason can’t prove that anything exists. Reason, in turn, can only give us logical proof about our ideas. However, God’s existence can’t be logically proved. Additionally, we have no sensory proof that God exists, either. Hume believed that we only know what has come to us from our sensory experiences: that’s the only knowledge we have. He even questioned about how one could know if God has the attributes that some say he has without having sensory impressions of them.
I agree, it is a very interesting topic. If you Google "does God exists?" you'll get a billion reason why he does and the same is true if you look up "why God doesn't exist?" It's hard to argue either point since there's really no way to prove or disprove either theory. Yes we are unable to see God but we aren't able to see a lot of things but it doesn't mean they don't exist. But nonetheless, as you already mentioned, Hume makes a great point in saying that how can God exist if we can't see him. What we perceive with our senses are arguably the only things we can be sure to be true.
ReplyDeleteAlso, a question from Sophie's World that I found to be really interesting was "if God created us who created God?" I never really thought about it until Sophie said it. God must come from somewhere, it doesn't make sense that he just appeared and created the universe. I thought about it for a while but gave up when I finally understood that there are somethings that we'll just never know the answer to.