Peter van Inwagen - Is God Necessary?

Show your support for the show with a Closer To Truth merchandise purchase: https://bit.ly/3P2ogje Whether God exists may depend on whether God is necessary. ‘Necessary’, in the philosophical sense, means ‘impossible not to exist’. Even if God exists, would it have been possible for God not to exist? Namely, even if God does exist, could it have been otherwise? If it were possible that God not exist, then why would God, as God is defined, exist at all? Like us on Facebook for daily videos, updates, announcements, and much more: https://shorturl.at/tak4l Peter van Inwagen is an American philosopher. He is the John Cardinal O'Hara Professor of Philosophy at the University of Notre Dame and a research professor of philosophy at Duke University each spring. Donate to help Closer To Truth continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://closertotruth.com/donate/ Closer To Truth, hosted by Robert Lawrence Kuhn and directed by Peter Getzels, presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.