262 Index
explanation, 2, 17–18, 163
as redescription, 101
complete, 12
contextual, 17–18, 163, 167, 173
need for, 1–2
not causal, 36, 167, 181–2
qualities of good one, 18–19, 28
regressive, 3, 23–4, 32, 36, 93,
104 –5, 108–10, 129, 174, 178, 226
simplicity in, 26
ultimate, 2–3
varieties of, 36, 86–8, 101, 110, 126,
181
extraterrestrial intelligence, probability
of, 7, 66–8, 70
extraterrestrials, 15–16, 24 –5, 108, 226
faith, 49–50, 52, 54–5, 81, 83, 128,
182–4, 191, 218–19
survival value of, 218
Fall, the, 61–2, 245
family resemblance concepts, 8, 28, 79,
198
Farrell, B.A., 158
Feinberg, G., 12
Festinger, L., 59
fiction, 33–4, 40 –1, 54
fideism, 79, 218
Field, H., 40–1
Findlay, J.N., 69, 204–9
fine structure constant, 16
fine tuning, 13, 15–19, 21–2, 24–7, 30,
69, 86, 109, 111–15, 209–13, 217,
224
improbable?, 15, 112, 211–13
firing squad analogy, 19–20, 68
first cause, 42, 79, 86, 104, 118–23,
126, 129–33, 160, 162, 180, 182,
231, 234, 243–4
not temporal, 36, 42, 119, 122–3,
160, 180, 231
first moment, 36, 42, 201
First Reviewer analogy, 116–18, 122
Flew, A.N., 22, 48, 52
‘folk psychology’, 96–7, 100, 169
form and matter, 88, 90 –1, 131–3, 172,
175, 189, 227–8, 230, 243
forms of life, 103–4, 217, 228–30
Forrest, P., 41
four-dimensional entities, 160 –1, 163,
172, 204
free agency, 141–2, 144 –6, 180
implies possible moral evil, 146, 166
free will, 30, 125, 166, 180 –2
and compatibilism, 63–4, 144, 166
as doing what we want, 63–4, 166
common sense idea of, 63–4, 166
defence, 61–4, 166
libertarian, 61–4, 144, 166, 180, 213
not indeterminacy, 62–3, 144 –5
Frege, G., 39, 133
future cats, 106, 157, 172Galilei, G., 66, 219
Geach, P.T., 102, 222
Genesis, book of, 104–5, 229
genetics, 12, 22
geology, 10
goal-seeking robots, 156, 167
‘God’ as a name, 33–4
God, agency of, 43–4, 51–2, 111,
135–7, 146–7, 180, 190
as ‘God of gaps’, 11, 107–8, 151–2
as benevolent, 48, 202, 213
as creator, 29, 43, 51, 62, 64 –5,
83, 86, 141–2, 144, 146–7, 160,
165–6, 182–4, 189–91, 210 –11,
215, 229, 232, 239–40, 247–8
as designer, 22–4, 43, 89, 114, 116,
179, 215, 227, 244
as ethical principle, see axiarchism
as finite ‘big brother’, 43, 60
as knower, x, 239–40
as maximally great, 33, 202–3, 205
as necessary being, 32–3, 35, 37, 69,
133, 198–9, 205–9, 240 –4
as sustaining, 139–42, 146, 190 –1,
240
existence of identical with essence,
132–3, 234 –5, 242–4