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Ahh the Ontological Argument, where philosophers try to define god into existence.
This
video is going to be about the modern, Modal Ontological Argument put forward
by apologists like Alvin Plantinga and defended by William Lane Craig.
This
is because the original Ontological Argument put forward by St. Anselm and
philosophers like Rene Descartes was refuted by philosophers like David Hume
and Immanuel Kant since the original argument assumed that “existence” was a
property. You can Google that, but
almost all modern apologists won’t attempt to defend that version of the
argument.
So
here’s the “Modal Ontological Argument” put forward by Plantinga:
