Does God exist?

I hope you won't be disappointed if I say that that's a question that can't be settled adequately in a 40-minute talk.

So I won't try to settle it.

What I'll do instead is less ambitious, but I hope helpful nonetheless.

I'll explore the possibilities and limits for using flexibility. but I hope helpful nonetheless.

I'll explore the possibilities and limits for using philosophy to learn about God's existence.

Unsurprisingly, since this is organized by the Thomistic Institute,

I'll be presenting things in a way that more or less

jives with Thomas Aquinas' approach. But I won't be doing that because I was invited by the

Thomistic Institute. I'll be doing it because I think it makes good sense. Here's the order

in which I'll be presenting things.

First, I'll give a brief sense of what philosophy is in the first place.

Second, I'll give brief discussions of reasons for believing in God other than as the result of philosophical argumentation.

Third, I'll discuss the idea of believing in God on the basis of philosophical argumentation. Fourth, I'll briefly look at objections to God's existence.

Fifth, I'll consider the following question.

If we have used philosophy to overcome objections to God's existence

and to provide philosophical reasons for believing in God,

what comes next, philosophically speaking.

And sixth, I'll point out the limitations of philosophy when it comes to God.

Here is a quick account of what philosophy is, section one.

It's the use of reason, unaided by divine revelation, to investigate the most foundational questions.

In saying unaided by divine revelation, I mean that philosophy doesn't rely on the Bible

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