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Four Reasons to Believe in God
CRAVINGS
DOMINOES
WATCHES
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• Reason 1 Cravings
• (Ontological Argument)

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Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an
unfortunate byproduct of an underlying
psychological propensity which in other
circumstances is, or once was, useful.
Richard Dawkins The God Delusion
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There seems an inherent human drive to believe in
something transcendent, unfathomable and
otherworldly, something beyond the reach or
understanding of science. These scholars tend to
agree on one point that religious belief is an
outgrowth of brain architecture.
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All of our raptures and our drynesses, our
longings and pantings, our questions and beliefs
. . . are equally organically founded --
William James James, who taught philosophy and
psychology at Harvard for more than 30 years,
based his book on a 1901 lecture series aimed at
breaching the science-religion divide.
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Now while Paul reasoned in the synagogue with the
Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in the
marketplace daily with those who happened to be
there. Then certain Epicurean and Stoic
philosophers encountered him. And some said,
What does this babbler want to say?... Then Paul
stood in the midst of the Areopagus and said,
Men of Athens, I perceive that in all things you
are very religious for as I was passing through
and considering the objects of your worship, I
even found an altar with this inscription TO THE
UNKNOWN GOD. Therefore, the One whom you worship
without knowing, Him I proclaim to you.
Acts 1616-18,22-23 (NKJV)
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should
never have found out that it has no meaning, just
as, if there were no light in the universe and
therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never
know it was dark. -- C.S. Lewis
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• Reason 2 Chicken and Egg
• (Cosmological Argument)

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Law of Biogenesis
Law of Thermodynamics
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Now while Paul... reasoned in the synagogue with
the Jews and with the Gentile worshipers, and in
the marketplace daily with those who happened to
be there. ... God, who made the world and
everything in it, since He is Lord of heaven and
earth, does not dwell in temples made with hands.
Nor is He worshiped with mens hands, as though
He needed anything, since He gives to all life,
breath, and all things.
Acts 1616,24,25 (NKJV)
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• Reason 3 Watch and Watchmaker
• (Design Argument)

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Ockhams Razor
All other things being equal, the simplest
solution is the best." 
William Ockham 14th century mathematician and
logician
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God, who made the world and everything in it...
so that they should seek the Lord, in the hope
that they might grope for Him and find Him,
though He is not far from each one of us for in
Him we live and move and have our being. Look at
the birds of the air, for they neither sow nor
reap nor gather into barns yet your heavenly
Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than
they?
Acts 1624-28 (NKJV)
Matthew 726 (NKJV)
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• Reason 4 Dominos

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Therefore, since we are the offspring of God, we
ought not to think that the Divine Nature is like
gold or silver or stone, something shaped by art
and mans devising. Truly, these times of
ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all
men everywhere to repent, because He has
appointed a day on which He will judge the world
in righteousness by the Man whom He has ordained.
He has given assurance of this to all by raising
Him from the dead.
Acts 1629-31 (NKJV)
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