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Does God exist?

I hope you won't be disappointed

if I say that that's a question

that can't really be settled adequately

in a short talk.

I won't even try, really.

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

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

Since this is a talk organized by the

Thomistic Institute, you won't be surprised to hear that I'll be presenting things in a way

that jives with St. 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.

So here's the order that I will be presenting things in.

First, I'll give a brief outline or a brief sense.

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 a result of philosophical

argumentation. Third, I'll discuss the idea of believing in God on the basis of philosophical

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