Why? Why did this happen? More than ten thousand people are confirmed dead, several nuclear reactors are spewing toxic radiation, and millions of homes and livelihoods destroyed. Amidst the massive destruction wrought by the recent earthquake in Japan, the troubling question arises. [...]

Why is murder wrong? There are a few ways to answer this question: murder is against the law, murder upsets the natural balance, or murder is wrong. Each of these answers displays a lot about the worldview of the person answering, but what is much more interesting is that almost all people, regardless of their worldview, will agree that, in modern legal terms, first degree murder is wrong. This suggests a moral compass common to almost all societies. This commonality of certain moral perspectives is referred to as moral law and used as evidence which points to the existence of a creator god.

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Does our study of the universe point to a creator? The Cosmological argument answers that modern astronomy, which posits the Big Bang Theory as the explanation of the beginning of the universe, does indeed point to a creator. Astrophysics at the highest level has long since accepted that the universe is expanding, and this expansion points to an initial time at which the universe began. The cosmological argument takes this information and applies it to classical philosophical arguments dating back to Plato. The history of this argument and the ways it has changed throughout the history of philosophy will aid in understanding its importance today.

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Of the four classical arguments for the existence of God, the ontological argument is the most questioned and least understood. Ontology is the study of the nature of being, or existence. According to definition, the ontological argument is an argument for God’s existence based upon the nature of his existence. Within the bounds of the ontological argument, in order to understand the nature of God’s existence, you must simply define your concept of God.

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