Argumentative essay

Assignment word count 2500

Choose any topic of your choice preferably related to business, based on the topic identify four or more arguments from different type of sources.

Write the argument in the given template and then elaborate on each argument in 2500 words.

APA format with pristine English

Australian English

10 references

Given table below is an example of how to construct an assignment.

Proposition: God Does Not Exist

Argument	Type of Evidence	Source of Evidence	Content of Evidence
There is no empirical evidence for God	1. Survey of physicists	1. American Academy of Sciences	1. 99% of physicists surveyed agreed that there is no physical evidence for God.
	2. Experimental results on prayer	2. Journal of Social Psychology	2. Prayer has no more effect on recovery from illness than the relevant placebo effect.
	3.	3.	3.
Science now explains many phenomena previously thought to be caused by God	1. Historical analysis	1. Journal of the History of Science	1. Lists a range of physical phenomena once thought to be explained by God that are now explained by physical causes
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Arguments for the existence of God are inconclusive	1. Philosophical analysis of arguments for the existence of God	1. Philosophical monograph (text)	1. The analysis shows that arguments for God are logically inclusive
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	3.	3.	3.
The God “hypothesis” does not explain various phenomena as well as naturalistic explanations	1. Case study of the relative efficacy of naturalistic / supernaturalistic explanations	1. University Web-site	1. Naturalistic explanations of natural phenomena are more parsimonious that supernaturalistic explanations of the same phenomena.
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	Other Types of Evidence: · Empirical study · Literature Review · Academic Essay · Reports / Statistics	Other Sources of Evidence: · Governments · Professional Associations (e.g., APA) · Reputable Non-Government Organisations (e.g., WHO, OECD)

Sample Paragraph (based on Table entry):

It is widely acknowledged that there is no empirical evidence for God’s alleged intervention in the world. For example, in a survey conducted by the American Academy of Sciences, 99% of physicists surveyed indicated that there is no physical evidence for God. Yet, if God did exist we would expect there to be evidence of his intervention in the world. Such evidence might include evidence relating to miracles or evidence of answered prayer. With respect to the latter, one study (Bloggs & Bloggs, 2012) showed no experimental effect of prayer over and above a placebo effect. This result suggests that prayer does not work which, in turn, suggests that God does not exist. Of course, it might be argued that God does exist even if there is no physical evidence for his existence. Even so, it would be impossible for humans to determine the difference between a God who doesn’t exist and a God who does exist but does not intervene evidentially in the world. In other words, without physical evidence, even if God does exist demonstrating this existence is not possible. Put yet another way, without physical evidence of God’s intervention, the conclusion that God does not exist is equally (perhaps more) justified on the basis of the evidence than the proposition that God does exist.

Bloggs, B., & Bloggs, S. (2012). An experiment on prayer. Journal of Social Psychology, 5(1), 16-33.