Atheism And Theism - Blackwell - Philosophy

148 J.J. Haldane mankind by an inspired teaching authority there would be no reason to be optimistic about transcending the agno ...

Atheism and Theism 149 4 For essays in this vein see the issue on Analytical Thomism, The Monist, vol. 81, 1988; also J. Haldane ...

150 J.J. Haldane that which appears in Volume 2 of the Blackfriars Summa– of which McDermott was also the translator. 17 This co ...

Reply to Haldane 151 3 Reply to Haldane J.J.C. Smart 1 Methodology John Haldane’s defence of theism is based on a well thought o ...

152 J.J.C. Smart this danger. To argue for theism on the basis of gaps in scientific explanation is a risky endeavour, since the ...

Reply to Haldane 153 a well-agreed hypothesis of the origin of proto-life and its development into bigger self-reproducing molec ...

154 J.J.C. Smart a definite way. We can explain the behaviour of the receiver by physics together with a wiring diagram. Thus in ...

Reply to Haldane 155 the molecules might be rather large and complex and a complete quantum mechanical account of the process co ...

156 J.J.C. Smart information about the world in general could have evolved by natural selec- tion. Whether or not the ‘homunculu ...

Reply to Haldane 157 the football. Contexts such as ‘Joe believes that.. .’ and ‘Joe desires that.. .’ are examples of intension ...

158 J.J.C. Smart These are such things as typical external causes and effects, waxings and wanings, and positions in similarity ...

Reply to Haldane 159 4 Chicken and Egg Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I am here indebted to a witty discussion note b ...

160 J.J.C. Smart 5 Eternity and Sempiternity In my discussion of the cosmological argument I suggested that the theist is on str ...

Reply to Haldane 161 at things in a space–time way. Consider a thing which did not exist before timet 1 and exists until time t ...

162 J.J.C. Smart of the universe, the fact that it exists at all. This is surely not enough for theism in any sense in which it ...

Reply to Haldane 163 else for its existence. If God also exists then God could be necessary in the same sense, but this would no ...

164 J.J.C. Smart nature but my motives have nothing to do with a desire to block cosmo- logical proofs. See Haldane’s remark on ...

Reply to Haldane 165 of the proper function of an organ of an animal or plant. I said that it was often useful for a biologist, ...

166 J.J.C. Smart create many universes, why not many universes which contain no positive evils? This thought does not undermine ...

Reply to Haldane 167 A naturalistically minded philosopher might concede that there might be no simple cause – e.g. the firing o ...