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The existence of God raises many questions. Geis' work addresses queries that arise from the gratuitous claims of empiricism in Hume, unfounded assumptions in Kant, presumptions of science, and the improbabilities it identifies in Darwinism. By focusing on number and proportion as intrinsic to material and atomic constituency, any argument from chance as instrumental to the cosmos' emergence and sustainability becomes invalidated. The arguments from contingency and the nature of intellection provide more clarity than the ratio Anselmi for acknowledging a transcendent causality, taking the reader to the problem of evil and present-day nihilism. These concepts present great, but not insuperable, difficulty for theism. Geis argues that evil, when one uses it as a means to the betterment of oneself and the world, takes on the role commensurate with the doctrine of an omnibenevolent deity. Accordingly, one can use evil as a means to a greater understanding of God, Providence, and eternal destiny.

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Book category Books in English Humanities Religion & beliefs Religion: general

• Full title: On the Existence of God
• Author: Robert Geis
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 236
• EAN: 9780761849131
• ISBN: 0761849130
• ID: 04914732
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Weight: 348 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 151 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. November 2009

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