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God in the age of science? : a critique of religious reason / Herman Philipse.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Philipse, Herman, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Faith and reason.
- Natural theology.
- God--Proof.
- God.
- Religion and science.
- Religion--Philosophy.
- Religion.
- Theism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 372 pages)
- Other Title:
- critique of religious reason
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Natural theology. The priority of natural theology
- The rise, fall, and resurrection of natural theology
- The reformed objection to natural theology
- Refutation of the reformed objection
- The rationality of natural theology
- A grand strategy
- Theism as a theory. Analogy, metaphor, and coherence
- God's necessity
- The predictive power of theism
- The immunization of theism
- The probability of theism
- Ultimate explanation and prior probability
- Cosmological arguments
- Arguments from order to design
- Other inductive arguments
- Religious experience and the burden of proof
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on Mar. 5, 2012).
- Includes bibliographical references (p.[347]-361) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-150505-6
- 0-19-870152-7
- 1-280-68569-7
- 9786613662637
- 0-19-162923-5
- OCLC:
- 922971096
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