Atheism And Theism - Blackwell - Philosophy

208 J.J.C. Smart are actually included in the make up of our world’. Indeed, many theists can feel in this way, say, on a beauti ...

Further Reflections on Atheism 209 supernatural acquaintance with the Platonic entities, as is needed in tradi- tional Platonism ...

210 J.J.C. Smart question. In a review in which he has many disagreements with me, William Lane Craig justly remarks, ‘It is a t ...

Further Reflections on Atheism 211 omnipotence, savours a bit of magic. God said, ‘Let there be light’ and there was light. This ...

212 J.J.C. Smart to do my best for the theist. The counter-argument would rest largely on the anthropocentricity (or perhaps bio ...

Further Reflections on Atheism 213 us who are aware of the slipperiness of philosophical argument and of how dependent it is on ...

214 J.J.C. Smart would infer a watchmaker. Watches do not grow spontaneously as heather, kangaroos and snakes do. Behe argues in ...

Further Reflections on Atheism 215 based, in various clays. Crystals of the clays could have replicated themselves as crystals d ...

216 J.J.C. Smart empirical test between them, physicists prefer the simplest theory. Simplicity here is cashed out in terms of s ...

Further Reflections on Atheism 217 that on the whole the fly has not come out of the fly bottle. Indeed, scientists themselves e ...

218 J.J.C. Smart come just from the proper functioning of our faculties of sight, hearing, etc. as when we see that there is a b ...

Further Reflections on Atheism 219 Consider the Popperian maxim ‘Do not look for verifications, look for falsifications.’ This i ...

220 J.J.C. Smart 15 I was myself much in the same frame of mind about the scope of ‘logic’, when I wrote two articles of philoso ...

Further Reflections on Theism 221 6 Further Reflections on Theism for the Second Edition J.J. Haldane 1 Preliminary In rereading ...

222 J.J. Haldane atheism and theism. Neither of us count ourselves ‘philosophers of religion’ in the sense of being specialists ...

Further Reflections on Theism 223 philosophy of probability to inductive reasoning about the origins of the cosmos and the patte ...

224 J.J. Haldane and expansion. One such is my deployment of what were called ‘old-style’ teleological arguments. It has long be ...

Further Reflections on Theism 225 components of cells are proteins and nucleic acids. The latter (DNA and RNA) carry the informa ...

226 J.J. Haldane it is here that the problem arises. For Smart’s comments on Behe, see pp. 213 –14. The development of species d ...

Further Reflections on Theism 227 of design is the only feasible explanation; and since the being of any con- tingent designer i ...