Arguing for God (The Collected Works of Saikat Guha Book 1)

This volume contains arguments for and against God's existence, his properties, responses to objections to his existence, and arguments about the rationality of belief.

The Fish Tale - a parable of arguing about God
Sic et Non - arguments for and against God's existence

1. The Necessary Being

Three modern interpretations of classical arguments - from Aquinas's five ways
A maximally great being - the Ontological Argument and an analysis of it
Two accounts of the Cosmological argument - contingency and necessity, with accompanying formal logical proofs
Parodies of the Cosmological argument
Why is there something rather than nothing? - other views on the cosmological argument

2. From the Necessary Being to What?

From Self-Existence to Absolute Perfection
That God is outside Time
A Logical Model of the Trinity
God's Simplicity
Divinity as Essential Property

Where else Can We Get God from?

List of Arguments for God
The Best of the Arguments
Why Everyone Believes in God
Where Can't We Get God from?
Teleological Argument
"There oughta be a God!"

Is It Rational to Believe?

The Rationality of Theism
"Is it Stupid to believe in God?" A Talk

But What about the Problems?

Arguments against a Perfect Being
Against the Argument from Evil
More on the Problem of Evil
Should we presume Atheism? - Okham's Razor and God