• Gaunilo or Gaunillon (fl. 11th century) was a Benedictine monk of Marmoutier Abbey in Tours, France. He is best known for his contemporary criticism of...
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  • number of criticisms and objections have also been mounted. Its first critic was Gaunilo of Marmoutiers, a contemporary of Anselm's. Gaunilo, suggesting...
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  • called the paradox of free will or theological fatalism, contends that omniscience and free will are incompatible and that any conception of God that incorporates...
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    Russell's teapot (category Criticism of religion)
    the philosophic burden of proof lies upon a person making empirically unfalsifiable claims, as opposed to shifting the burden of disproof to others. Russell...
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  • Argument from nonbelief (category Arguments against the existence of God)
    argument from nonbelief is a philosophical argument for the non-existence of God that asserts an inconsistency between God's existence and a world in which...
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  • holds that there is nothing but natural elements, principles, and relations of the kind studied by the natural sciences. Methodological naturalism is a philosophical...
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    Anukulchandra Chakravarty (category Founders of new religious movements)
    founder of Satsang, in Deoghar. He was born in a Brahmin family. Anukulchandra Chakravarty was born in the Himaitpur village of Pabna district of East Bengal...
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  • of Hell is an ethical problem in the Abrahamic religions of Christianity and Islam, in which the existence of Hell (Jahannam) for the punishment of souls...
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  • argument, in natural theology and the philosophy of religion, is an argument which asserts that the existence of God can be inferred from facts concerning causation...
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    Pascal's wager (category Arguments for the existence of God)
    belief in the existence of God. Pascal contends that a rational person should adopt a lifestyle consistent with the existence of God and actively strive...
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