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Aug 9, 2023 · COWEN: There’s a Paul Graham worldview in your earlier essays, where you want to look for the great hackers, and a lot of the most important companies come from intriguing side projects. GRAHAM: Oh, yes.
Apr 20, 2023 · I believe that this idea is crystal clear and that anyone, regardless of their worldview, can estimate how much of their life has passed and roughly predict how much time they have left.
Apr 17, 2023 · I’ve been a reader of Paul Graham’s essays since around sophomore year of college. Back then it was tremendously infrequent (and lacking depth), but this past year, it has been quite the...
May 18, 2020 · Paul Graham is a renowned technologist, computer scientist, investor, and impressively down-to-earth human being who writes like he talks. One of his essays is about learning and reflection,...
- Introduction
- Christianity/Theism in Worldview Contexts
- Is There A God?
- The Evidence For God: The Cosmological Argument
- The Evidence For God: The Teleological Argument
- The Evidence For God: The Moral Argument
- Why Is There Evil and Suffering?
- Summary Thoughts
- Discussion Questions
It used to be that most people in America believed there was a God and that the Bible was God’s word. They believed in heaven and hell, even the Apostles Creed or something to close it. Hurdles to the gospel were apathy, lack of personal response, or wrong views of how to get to heaven. Now all that has changed. Many people now don’t believe in God...
To start with, it is helpful to try to understand how Christianity fits into a larger context of world views. These large categories of worldviews can be classified into the larger categories of Theism, Pantheism, Naturalism and Pluralism. Theismis the belief that there is a personal God outside of time and space who created the universe out of not...
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion stated, “we are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.”7 Another outspoken atheist, Christopher Hitchens, author of God is Not Great stated, “that which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”8 But is it tru...
The basic cosmological argument is that everything that exists has a cause, and since the universe exists, it must have had a first cause. Another way to state it is to stress the inception of the universe. If the universe began to exist then the universe has a cause. The universe began to exist. Therefore the universe has a cause.10 Sometimes the ...
The basic teleological argument states that since the world is so complex and so ordered, it had to have been designed/created by some intelligent being. The design points to a designer, a car points to a manufacturer, a watch points to a watchmaker, an I-Phone points to Steve Jobs etc. The universe and everything in it is too complex, orderly, ada...
The moral argument states that since everyone has conscience and a concept of right and wrong, this must reflect some higher conscience or higher moral absolute. If God does not exist, objectionable moral values do not exist. Objectionable moral values do exist. Therefore, God exists. Paul states, “For whenever the Gentiles, who do not have the law...
If God is good and God is all-powerful then how can there be evil in the world? It may be claimed that since there is evil, there must not be a God. Or if there is a God, he must not be good or he must not be all-powerful. This problem is also called theodicy and constitutes one of the major objections to God’s existence. But there is no logical fa...
Sin and evil are not things created by God. They are a deprivation of things created by God. Just like darkness is the absence of light and cold is the absence of heat, evil is really the absence of good. This was one of Augustine’s arguments.16 The Bible says: God created the world and it was “good” (Gen 1). However, man sinned and brought sin and...
How could one begin to share the gospel with someone who does not believe the Bible?How did Paul adjust his gospel presentation to the Athenians who did not accept the Jewish Scriptures (Acts 17)? Is there a lesson there for us today?What convinces you that God really exists?Does evolution contradict the Bible? Does it allow for a denial of the existence of God?Dec 20, 2022 · The other is Paul Graham, co-founder of Y Combinator, a startup accelerator, whose essays on everything from cities to politics are considered required reading on tech campuses.
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Paul Graham has had a big influence on me so I hope this introduction/summary inspires folks to read his essays. Let me know if there's something I can do to make the post more useful.
