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argument, from contingency, 32–43, 86
from religious experience, 43–7
propter quid, 127–8
quia, 127–30, 133
to best explanation, 22, 25, 27, 30,
35, 39–40, 76, 82–3, 173, 247
to design, 12, 20 –3, 27, 43, 69, 83,
86–7, 89, 108–9, 111–16, 135,
165, 176, 213–15, 224, 226–8,
230, 233–4, 244
arguments, synopsis of, 177
Aristotelianism, 90 –1, 99, 103, 130 –1,
139–40, 161, 165, 167, 172, 181,
197
Aristotle, 42, 86, 127
Armstrong, D.M., 41, 158
‘as if ’ talk, 13–15, 27, 45, 59–60, 85,
109, 165
atheisma priori, 127, 188–9, 204 –8
atheism simpler than theism, 23–4,
42–3, 50 –1, 69, 78, 155, 159,
171–3, 180, 210 –11, 215
atheism, vagueness of, 3, 198
atheist theologians, 3, 9, 15, 27–8, 70,
79, 81, 184, 189–90, 207–8, 223
Augustine, St, 190, 245, 247
Austin, J.L., 63
Austin, M.C., 17
axiarchic principle, 14, 26–32, 43, 201,
212–13
existence of, 30, 43
axiarchism, difficulties for, 27–31

Barnes, E.W., 152
Barnes, J., 33–4
basic entities, 9, 12, 84, 87–8, 90 –1,
96–8, 101, 106, 109–10, 115, 154,
172–3, 176, 178, 196–7
Baur, F., 55
Bayesianism, 212–13, 215
beauty, criterion of truth, 26, 28,
215–16
beginning of existence, 123–5, 200–1,
209
behaviour, 101

‘behaviour’, meaning of term, 99

behaviourism, 84 –5, 176

Behe, M.J., 213–14, 225–6

beliefs and desires, 63, 84, 96, 98,

100 –1, 156 –7, 167, 181, 230

beliefs, coherence of, 18, 46, 52–3,

55–8, 69, 153, 184, 207

beneficial order, 89–91, 126

Bentham, J., 25

Berkeley, G., 27, 213, 232, 235–40

big bang theory, 7, 20, 36, 42, 160,

210 –11

Bigelow, J., 41, 204

biology, 10 –13, 22, 88, 91, 95–6,

109, 116, 146, 154, 159, 165, 178,

213–14, 224 –7

black holes, 36, 42, 209

‘body’, ambiguity of, 227–8

Boethius, 43

Bolingbroke, Lord, 8

Bonaventure, St, 122

Boolos, G., 41

Borg, M.J., 217

Bradley, F.H., 14, 55–7, 212

brain as computer, 40, 63, 155–6

brainwashing, 47–50

Brandon, S.G.F., 58, 185, 187–8

Brouwer, L.E.J., 206

Browning, R., 5

brute fact, 109, 111–12, 123, 125–6,

152, 214

Burgess, J., 41

Butler, Bishop, 85

Caiaphas, 187–8

Cairns-Smith, A.G., 214

Calvinism, 202, 213

Campbell, C.A., 14

Cantor, G., 65

Carter, B., 16–21, 33, 38, 68, 70, 163,

210

Catherine of Siena, St, 190

causal realism, 123, 163, 196

causal series, intrinsic, 122–3, 126

causality, as contextual, 163, 172, 196