Atheism And Theism - Blackwell - Philosophy

8 J.J.C. Smart 2 Theism, Spirituality and Science Notice that I have said ‘broadly theistic’. A distinction between theism and d ...

Atheism and Theism 9 simply that she is a person who has a strong urge to engage in prayer and worship, notwithstanding the fact ...

10 J.J.C. Smart physics needs to postulate them we must regard them as physical. Similarly Quine has held that we should believe ...

Atheism and Theism 11 from inorganic matter, but there are hints that the problem at least is not as hopeless as Kelvin thought. ...

12 J.J.C. Smart As I suggested at the beginning of this essay it is a mistake to think of theories, even in theoretical physics, ...

Atheism and Theism 13 actually affect embryological development as well as all the other continuing activities in living cells. ...

14 J.J.C. Smart that have arisen ‘purely fortuitously’. I do not of course deny the fortuitous element in all evolution. Let us ...

Atheism and Theism 15 so on the phenomenal level we can pursue science without any danger of religious or a priori metaphysical ...

16 J.J.C. Smart that would enable them to guess what ‘+’ and ‘=’ mean. We could also give them a clue to our decimal notation by ...

Atheism and Theism 17 Faulty Anthropic Arguments The matter many be illustrated by a faulty argument of G.J. Whitrow in the appe ...

18 J.J.C. Smart on context. I mainly think of it in terms of coherence, of fitting the explanandumproposition into our web of be ...

Atheism and Theism 19 values of the fundamental constants randomly distributed between them, then it could be virtually certain ...

20 J.J.C. Smart Some readers will react adversely to the moral drawn from the firing squad story and so also to the supposed exp ...

Atheism and Theism 21 planets, life and intelligence. We are obviously not in one of the vastly more common ‘crystals’ or sub-un ...

22 J.J.C. Smart argument from ostensible fine tuning is the currently fashionable form of the traditional ‘teleological argument ...

Atheism and Theism 23 that God could be a perfectly simple being. At first sight, as Hume seems to have thought, the designer of ...

24 J.J.C. Smart proof of the existence of God, but my reference to it has a different motiva- tion.) There can be a simple recip ...

Atheism and Theism 25 was created in order for there to be consciousness and intelligence. Bertrand Russell held that vanity is ...

26 J.J.C. Smart As a possibly misleading analogy consider the way in which three at first sight unrelated numbers, i the square ...

Atheism and Theism 27 axiarchic hypothesis were true the world would have consisted entirely of these. In his Value and Existenc ...