Memento mori: "Untaught": Untaught Just like the belief that the past was once the present, the existence of God is also a self-evident truth. What is meant by 'God' in this chapter is the basic concept of a Creator, a nonhuman personal cause or designer. It does not refer to a particular religious conception of a diety or God. Untaught Self evident truths do not need to be taught or learnt.For example, for me to know what spaghetti is, I require information of Western cuisine and Italian culture. I cannot know what spaghetti is merely by reflecting on it. By contrast,you do not require any information whether from culture or education, to know a creator for things exists. This may be the reason why sociologists and anthropologists argue that even if atheist children were stranded on a desert island, they would come to believe that something created the island. Our understanding of God differs, but the underlying believe in a cause or creator is based on our own reflections. Some atheists exclaim, "believing in God is no different than believing in the spaghetti monster". This objection is obviously false. Self evident truths do not require external information. The idea that monsters exist, or even that spaghetti exists, requires information transfer. No one acquires knowledge of monsters or spaghetti by their own intuitions or introspection. Therefore the spaghetti monster is not a self-evident truth; thus, the comparison with God cannot be made. Diverting our attention from the context of this chapter, this objection also fails, as there are many good arguments for God's existence and no good arguments for the existence of a spaghetti monster.

Just like the belief that the past was once the present, the existence of God is also a self-evident truth. What is meant by 'God' in this chapter is the basic concept of a Creator, a nonhuman personal cause or designer. It does not refer to a particular religious conception of a diety or God. Untaught Self evident truths do not need to be taught or learnt.For example, for me to know what spaghetti is, I require information of Western cuisine and Italian culture. I cannot know what spaghetti is merely by reflecting on it. By contrast,you do not require any information whether from culture or education, to know a creator for things exists. This may be the reason why sociologists and anthropologists argue that even if atheist children were stranded on a desert island, they would come to believe that something created the island. Our understanding of God differs, but the underlying believe in a cause or creator is based on our own reflections. Some atheists exclaim, "believing in God is no different than believing in the spaghetti monster". This objection is obviously false. Self evident truths do not require external information. The idea that monsters exist, or even that spaghetti exists, requires information transfer. No one acquires knowledge of monsters or spaghetti by their own intuitions or introspection. Therefore the spaghetti monster is not a self-evident truth; thus, the comparison with God cannot be made. Diverting our attention from the context of this chapter, this objection also fails, as there are many good arguments for God's existence and no good arguments for the existence of a spaghetti monster.

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