Does philosophy favor God exists, or it does not.

Philosophy is a human discipline investigating everything on the basis of reason and intelligence, investigating with focus on the ultimate grounds of existence or reality.

First, it investigages the who, what, when, where, why and how of an event or a fact or a phenomenon or a belief or even what is certainty as distinct from and opposed to doubt.

My on finding is that philosophy favors the existence of God, becaise ultimately God is the explanation for everything, period.

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yrger · 80-89, M

There is correct philosophy and there is wrong philsophy.

Correct philosophy starts with the existence of something that is self-existent.

Wrong philosophy starts with something that is not self-existent.

How did we come to the idea of a self-existent being?

This way:
1. Humans with reason and intelligence think on the question where ultimately do we come from.
2. By elimination, it could not be from any non-self-existent being.
3. Therefore, it must be from a self-existent being.
4. Now humans go forth from thinking in the mind to searching for evidence in the concrete world of reality outside the mind indicating the existence ultimately of a being that is self-existent.
5. After thinking and thinking and thinking, the idea comes into the mind of man that the self-exstent being is in fact containing everything that is not self-existent but dependent on the self-existent being that is super in a way gigantic as to contain and operate everything not self-existent which the self-existent being creates and contains and operates.

FragileHeart · 22-25, M

@yrger There is no such thing as correct and wrong philosophy. That is just your value judgment.

You really like the idea of a self-existing being do you? You sure use the term a lot but that doesn't make it plausible. What if everything just either is or isn't? Everything is subject to change either through direct actions (like the creation you believe in) or through complex interactions.
What if the universe is just one big ever expanding endless self existing place and not a being?

DocSavage · M

@FragileHeart
Been trying to explain that idea to him through half a dozen threads. He refuses to except anything other than a god. That’s why he keeps bringing up babies and roses. He keeps losing the creation argument. So he switches to the all loving omnipresent version.
He’s completely pointless.