The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Religion

numbered events should have fewer events in it. But in fact it does not, as can be seen by writing the two series one on top of ...

its immediate successor, there still would need to be a cause of the entire infinite succession. It is at this point that David ...

actually has an explanation, for this, in effect, is to grant that the universe is rational through and through. And this occupi ...

Recently, we have concocted a new version of Clarke's cosmological argument that manages to make do with a very weak version of ...

enough to give it. And, because it freely causes the existence of the universe, the act of creation is a self-explaining action ...

The strategy that we adopt for breaking this tie in modal intuitions is to show that one of the two rival modal intuitions coher ...

We see here the ingredients of any argument from design. A design argument, like a cosmological argument, begins with a continge ...

by humans, we would not infer that the watch found on the heath is designed. But surely, even if one found some mysterious compl ...

functional properties; there are many other organisms than this Mycoplasma that would be sufficient to start life; and there are ...

need the paucity of fine-tuned universes simpliciter, but simply in our local area. Besides, we do have good reason to think tha ...

is better to create than not to. As long as our universe is above that cut-off line, God was justified in creating it, even thou ...

order. This would yield a probability like at least 0.00000033 that an intelligent designer of end p.133 the universe would prod ...

The above arguments were all nondeductive. However, John Haldane (Smart and Haldane 2003) has given a deductive Thomistic teleol ...

We would like to thank Roland Hirsch, George Hunter, and David Keller for helpful discussion of and comments on biological matte ...

Hutcheson, C. A., et al. 1996. “Global Transposon Mutagenesis and a Minimal Mycoplasma Genome.” Science 286: 2165–69. Leslie, Jo ...

“mystical experience” will be more in the spirit of how it figures in general culture, and a narrow definition will echo a meani ...

body experiences, telepathy, precognition, and clairvoyance. All of these are acquaintance with objects or qualities of a kind a ...

2. Religious Experience “Religious experience” too can be given a wide and a narrow definition. In its wide sense, “religious ex ...

Mystical and religious experiences can be classified in various ways, in addition to the built-in difference between mystical su ...

Mystics sometimes speak as though they have a consciousness of being identical with God. Examples are the Islamic Sufi mystic Hu ...