Scott Sturgeon, the author of “Philosophy: The Great Debate”, talks about philosophy and the existence of God. Sturgeon states that every culture believes in a different God. He mentions that people always believed that there is more in life than everything we see and touch. Sturgeon asked us many questions whether God exists because of a psychological defense-mechanism or because of a common experience for all humans that led them to believe in God? Sturgeon talked about Theism which means the belief in a personal God that created the world, and he also talked about Monotheism which is the belief that there is only one God. Sturgeon talks about science and how it is changing people’s beliefs by making them ask themselves if God really exists
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All my life, and before taking an exam, I used to pray for God to help me. When my grandmother got sick I went to church every day to pray for her to get better, whenever I’m nervous or scared, I pray for a release from anxiety or distress from God. Our consciousness may prove that God really exists. People’s inability to understand consciousness may have given rise to the Cartesian dualism (Sturgeon, 22). This Cartesian dualism explains the mental and material fundamentals. Theistic philosophers have taken these fundamentals to the next level. They have come up with an existence that is distinct from the physical world that is known as God. I feel like I’m agnostic. This is because they have concluded that they just don’t know whether or not God exists (Velasquez, 260). It is mentioned in our book that most of the religious people think of atheists as evil curmudgeons (Velasquez, 260). For me, it is totally the opposite, atheists are people who have chosen to believe that there is no such a thing as God, and they do believe in science. Since I’m a pre-dental student I believe in science as well, but I try my best not to mix between science and my beliefs. I was really scared from my evolution class, as I thought it may contradict my beliefs, but after finishing this class, I felt like it opened my mind on many important things in the world that I did not know about before. Darwin changed the whole perspective on the world just because of a small detail that he discovered in the Galapagos
All my life, and before taking an exam, I used to pray for God to help me. When my grandmother got sick I went to church every day to pray for her to get better, whenever I’m nervous or scared, I pray for a release from anxiety or distress from God. Our consciousness may prove that God really exists. People’s inability to understand consciousness may have given rise to the Cartesian dualism (Sturgeon, 22). This Cartesian dualism explains the mental and material fundamentals. Theistic philosophers have taken these fundamentals to the next level. They have come up with an existence that is distinct from the physical world that is known as God. I feel like I’m agnostic. This is because they have concluded that they just don’t know whether or not God exists (Velasquez, 260). It is mentioned in our book that most of the religious people think of atheists as evil curmudgeons (Velasquez, 260). For me, it is totally the opposite, atheists are people who have chosen to believe that there is no such a thing as God, and they do believe in science. Since I’m a pre-dental student I believe in science as well, but I try my best not to mix between science and my beliefs. I was really scared from my evolution class, as I thought it may contradict my beliefs, but after finishing this class, I felt like it opened my mind on many important things in the world that I did not know about before. Darwin changed the whole perspective on the world just because of a small detail that he discovered in the Galapagos