This argument in my opinion isn’t the stongest one but it does require some answering. Basically it says that if something is being desired, it points to something that exists which fulfills that desire.
For example, people get hungry. The fact that hunger (desire for food) exists, means that food must definitely exist. People desire for companionship, therefore companionship must exist.
It need not be a 1 to 1 correspondence though. For example, someone might desire to be king of the world. But we’re pretty sure a “King of the world” doesn’t exist. What does exist is what the man actually desires which may be, riches or power. Both of which most definitely exist.
Then people desire God. Since this is an atheist site I’d like to ask what this desire could possibly be since a desire for a higher power does in fact exist. If not God, what could it possibly be?
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