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Alvin Plantinga - Arguing God's Existence?

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The Ontological Argument (The Introduction)

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To help support this ministry click here: http://www.patreon.com/inspiringphilosophy Alvin Plantinga's Modal Ontological's Argument is a irrefutable logical argument for the existence of God. Yet many people seem to have a hard time understanding it. This video tries to simply the argument so the average person can understand it using Craig's work.

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His argument stems from a criticism of one version of the ontological argument.
The problem arises from eing able to prove that God IS a necessary being, just not one in this world.

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-Some people know that God exists as a basic belief.
-People have other minds existing by analogy within their own minds.
-No logical inconsitency with evil and the existence of omnipotent God

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-Born in 1932 from a Dutch family.

-Father had PhD in philosophy and encouraged Alvin to drop out of High school early and enroll in Jamestown College.
-Family moved to Michigan so he went to Calvin College where he gained a scholarship to Harvard Univeristy. In the summer of 1951 he attended some philosophy classes at Calvin under William Harry Jellema and enrolled for a degree in 1951.
Achieved Ph.D invYale in 1955.

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To agree with his argument, you must agree with the modal logic approach about possibility and necessity.

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The first premise is based on the idea that God is necessary, and that something is better if it has necessary existence than if it has merely contingent existence, just like Anselm's ideas in his 3rd Prostolgian.

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Secondly.. If God exists in some possible world, then, because he is a necessary being, he exists in all possible worlds meaning he must exist in this one.

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The modal ontological argument, like Anselm's, begins with a statement about God.
"God, if he exists, is a necessary being. That is, if God exists at all then he exists in every possible world." (this is the modal approach).. How does this work?... well...
Firstly, if we agree that it is possible for God to exist, then he does, because like we established previously, for something to be possible in our world, there is a "possible world where it is actual". To explain further.. there must be another world where God actually exists, for him to possibly exist in our world.

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to summarise;
Alvin Plantinga was a modern advocate of the Ontological argument, his argument being that religious belief does not need external justification. He applies a modal logic approach to the ontological argument; meaning he considers possibility and necessity.
He believed for something to be considered possible is to say that there is a possible world in which it is actual, and to say that something is necessary is to say that in every possible world it is actual.