36 Arguments for the Existence of God
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36 Arguments for the Existence of God (A Work of Fiction) is a 2010 novel by Rebecca Goldstein. It concerns the events surrounding the fictional author of the book The Varieties of Religious Illusion, which contains an appendix of 36 arguments and their refutations. The novel 36 Arguments reproduces this appendix as an appendix of its own.
The arguments[edit]
- The cosmological argument
- The ontological argument
- The argument from design
- The argument from the Big Bang (a variant of the cosmological argument)
- The argument from the fine-tuning of physical constants
- The argument from the beauty of physical laws (a variant of the argument from comprehensibility)
- The argument from cosmic coincidences
- The argument from personal coincidences
- The argument from the efficacy of prayer
- The argument from a wonderful life
- The argument from miracles
- The argument from the hard problem of consciousness (a variant of the argument from consciousness)
- The argument from the improbable self
- The argument from survival after death
- The argument from the inconceivability of personal annihilation
- The argument from moral truth
- The argument from altruism
- The argument from free will
- The argument from personal purpose
- The argument from the intolerability of insignificance (variant of the argument from the meaning of life)
- The argument from the consensus of humanity
- The argument from the consensus of mystics (a variant of the common consent argument for the existence of God)
- The argument from holy books
- The argument from perfect justice
- The argument from suffering
- The argument from the survival of the Jews
- The argument from the upward curve of history
- The argument from prodigious genius
- The Argument from Human Knowledge of Infinity (variant of the argument from the origin of the idea of God))
- The argument from mathematical reality
- The Argument from Decision Theory (Pascal's Wager)
- The argument from pragmatism (William James’s Leap of Faith)
- The argument from the unreasonableness of reason
- The argument from sublimity
- The argument from the intelligibility of the universe (Spinoza’s God)
- The argument from the abundance of arguments
External links[edit]
- Webpage on the book from the author's website
- Webpage on the book from the publisher's website
- Chapter 1 and the eponymous appendix