Our hearts resonate with beauty, the lifting feeling seems to point to something transcendent This argument for God’s existence isn’t so much based on ideas as it is on a nearly universal human experience: the compelling feeling of transcendence when we are moved by beauty. When we hear a powerful performance or a particularly beautiful piece of music, our hearts are stirred with a kind of yearning or longing and a poignant kind of joy. The feeling of wonder that beauty can illicit stirs us...

Everyone has the concept of something that is bad or something that is good. Everyone knows punching someone is bad, or cancer is bad, or Hitler was evil. There must be some objective truth outside of me, that there is some existence that is ultimately good, almost like a natural instinct. But where does that instinct come from? And what scale are we comparing these things on? To explore this topic I did some footwork, I spoke to friends, professors, and of course, my Dad.  First, I spoke to...

Irreducible complexity, the idea that there are systems in biology that could not be developed randomly through natural selection, is part of the argument for design.  To explore this topic I did some footwork, I spoke to friends, professors, and of course, my Dad.  First, I spoke to Emily Stanton, an environmental science major at Anderson University, to see if she knew about this idea. I asked her to explain the concept and give me examples.  Dr. Joni McCullar Criswell, a biology professor...

The idea of God; the generation if the idea of a beneficial God, and the fact that the idea of God itself exists. Anselm of Canterbury was a philosopher in the 11th century, he is most famous for his book the “Proslogion.” In it, he wrote an ontological argument that has several parts, It is worded like a prayer in the Proslogion, but I’ll summarize it in simpler words here. First, he states that God can be defined as a supreme being, to have that idea in the mind. All people think of God in...

Things are constantly moving and changing; but why, what does it mean, and who is causing it. Thomas Aquinas penned the five ways, “the first way” discusses that nothing can happen without a cause.  Here is the full argument: 1. All bodies are either potentially in motion or actually in motion. 2. "But nothing can be reduced from potentiality to actuality, except by something in a state of actuality"  3. Nothing can be at once in both actuality and potentiality in the same respect. 4....

Today in America, the fastest growing religious perspective in America today is something called The Nones. America hasn’t seen a sudden surge of women converting to Catholicism, taking vows of celibacy, and entering convents. Instead, America has seen a sudden surge of people who are walking away from religious faith altogether. According to Ryan Burge, a political scientist at Eastern Illinois University, and author of the new book, The Nones: Where They Came From, Who They Are, and Where...