266 Index
numinous, evolutionary explanation of,
45
occasionalism, 146
Ockham’s razor, 19, 24, 155, 160,
162–3, 167, 172, 217
ontological argument, 22, 33–5, 86,
198–205, 222, 234, 241–2
ontological commitment, 10, 34, 39, 41,
172–3, 206–8, 210
ontological dependence, 123–4, 126,
234
open texture, 54
order, beneficial, 88
organisms not designed, 22–3
organisms, Aristotelian hierarchy of,
140 –1
functions of and in, 13, 87–91, 95,
108, 139–40, 154, 156–7, 164–5,
176, 178, 181, 214, 224, 226,
230
organization, in machine, 13, 153–4,
156, 167, 214, 224, 226
outcomes, probability of, 112–13
pain, 25, 61, 165–6
Paley, W., 12, 14, 25, 55, 213, 226
pantheism, 14 –15, 160, 212–13
panvitalism, 226
Parmenides, 42
parrots, 104
Pascal’s Wager, 44, 46–50, 65
Pascal, B., 46–50
Paul, St, 45, 51, 59, 80, 127–8, 143,
185–6, 228
Peano’s axioms, 38, 208
Penrose, R., 40
perception, causal theory of, 107
reliability of, 217–18
Peter, St, 148
phenomenalism, 27, 76–7
phenomenology,see raw feels
Philo of Alexandria, 188
philosophical questions, ix, 1–3, 6, 69,
216, 218
philosophy of religion, current state of,
221–3
philosophy, purpose of, ix –x, 1–2, 45,
108, 184, 216–17
style of, 77, 81, 171–3, 216, 221–3
physicalism, 10, 88, 98–100
ideological, 84 –5, 91, 98, 107, 123,
172–3, 176, 178, 189
physics, new, 9–12
the only guide to reality, 41, 82,
85, 88, 90, 96, 98–9, 154, 175–6,
196
Planck’s constant, 36
planet formation, 66–8
Plantinga, A., 200 –3, 205, 217–18, 222,
234
Plato, 26, 28, 42, 209, 216
Platonism, 28, 39–40, 42, 57, 161, 164,
206–9, 216, 241
plausibility, 6–7, 44, 46, 54, 57–9, 61–2,
68–9, 76, 96, 153, 155, 159, 167,
171–3, 175, 182, 215–17
polytheism, 3, 8, 42
Pontius Pilate, 58, 187–8
Popper, K., 207, 219
possibility, actualized, 103, 113–14, 130,
231
as conceivability, 124 –6
as contextual, 53, 157, 162, 201, 208
possible worlds, 38, 157, 200–4, 209,
222, 242
postmodernism, ix
potentiality and actuality, 103–4, 120 –1,
130 –3, 161, 228–31, 234, 236,
242–3
powers, 108, 140 –1, 145–6, 165, 181–2,
231, 244
pragmatism, 47–50, 194, 238
confused, 44, 50
prayer, 9, 28, 43, 80 –1, 146, 190
Pre-Socratics, 2–3
Price, H., 163
Prime Sayer, 104
Prime Thinker argument, 103–4,
120 –1, 126–7, 135, 227–32