You have changed your mind hundreds of times. The truth of two plus two has never changed once.That difference matters. Claim in one line: Unchanging truths exist, they outrun every private mind, and their only adequate home is in an unchanging, perfect Mind. That is God. This is St. Augustine’s Argument from Truth. He noticed […]
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The Argument from Intelligibility: Why the World Makes Sense At All
You look out at reality and it looks back in patterns. Equations fit it. Explanations travel. Predictions land. That is not trivial. It is astonishing. Claim in one line: The deep match between human minds and the structure of the world points to a rational Creator. Reality is intelligible because it comes from Intelligence. This […]
The Transcendental Argument: The Stage Beneath Every Argument
You don’t notice the stage while you’re watching the play. You follow the actors, the music, the lines. But the whole thing stands because something solid is under it.The Transcendental Argument (TAG) says God is that “something solid”—the precondition that makes arguing, knowing, and calling anything good or evil workable in the first place. Short […]
The Argument For Contingency
So last time we spoke about the first mover theory posited by Aquinas, but underneath the first mover, he postulated another meta physical layer we can explore. So once again let start on something we can all agree on. Things exist (obviously). They come into being, change, and pass away. People are born, live, and […]
The First Mover Theory
Let’s start with a basic idea that we can all agree on. Things change. Seasons come and go, seeds sprout into trees, and ideas go from “maybe” to “done.” Lets call that “motion” in the broad, classical sense. The key here is to recognize that something is always shifting from ‘potential’ to ‘actual’. And when […]
CTMU (Cognitive-Theoretic Model of the Universe)
Throughout history a small group of people have been trying decode the nature of reality. From Aquinas to Newton, and from Einstein to Hawking the most brilliant minds have sought to contribute to this herculean endeavor. Today in the present day, Christopher Langan has made his attempt. He is self-taught blue-collar worker with a special […]
Descartes and the Origin of the Idea of God
Why do we have the idea of God at all? Not just a really powerful being, but a perfect and infinite one? If that idea lives in your mind, where did it come from?Renown 17th century philosopher Renee Descartes wondered this same thing. After pondering the question he had a burst of insight. He argued […]
Modal Ontological Argument
Lets start with the a simple core idea about “God”. Let’s assume that by “God” we mean a maximally great being, perfect in power, knowledge, and goodness, whose greatness would not depend on luck or circumstances but would hold in every possible way reality could be. Next think about all the possible worlds that could […]
Anselm’s Ontological Argument
Why a medieval monk thought God’s existence follows from the very idea of God We’re going to pause and look at one big claim. It’s tight. It’s logical. And if it lands, it lands hard. What do we mean by “God”? When we say God, we mean the greatest possible being. Not just strong, but […]
What To Expect
This is the final prep before we start stacking evidence. The question on the table is simple. Is it more rational to believe in God or to reject Him? By the time you finish this section, the theist picture of reality should feel not only possible, but compelling. Here is how this will go. We […]