God in the Age of Science?: A Critique of Religious Reason

Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press (2012)
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Herman Philipse puts forward a powerful new critique of belief in God. He examines the strategies that have been used for the philosophical defence of religious belief, and by careful reasoning casts doubt on the legitimacy of relying on faith instead of evidence, and on probabilistic arguments for the existence of God.

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9780199697533   0199697531

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10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199697533.001.0001

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The Priority of Natural Theology.  (pages 3-18)
The Rise, Fall, and Resurrection of Natural Theology.  (pages 19-30)
The Reformed Objection to Natural Theology.  (pages 31-42)
Refutation of the Reformed Objection.  (pages 43-64)
The Rationality of Natural Theology.  (pages 65-75)
6. A Grand Strategy.  (pages 76-93)
Analogy, Metaphor, and Coherence.  (pages 95-119)
God’s Necessity.  (pages 120-139)
The Predictive Power of Theism.  (pages 140-160)
The Immunization of Theism.  (pages 161-189)
Ultimate Explanation and Prior Probability.  (pages 191-220)
Cosmological Arguments.  (pages 221-255)
Arguments from Order to Design.  (pages 256-278)
Other Inductive Arguments.  (pages 279-309)
Religious Experience and the Burden of Proof.  (pages 310-337)
Conclusion.  (pages 338-346)

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