Abductive Reasoning and an Omnipotent God: A Response to Daniel Came

Daniel Came (2017) boldly argues that given certain assumptions, no omnipotent being can even in principle be the best explanation for some contingent state of affairs S. In this paper, I argue that (i) even given Came's assumptions, his argument rests crucially on a non sequitur, that (ii) he...

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1. VerfasserIn: Yousif, Alex (VerfasserIn)
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Veröffentlicht: University of Innsbruck in cooperation with the John Hick Centre for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Birmingham [2017]
In: European journal for philosophy of religion
Jahr: 2017, Band: 9, Heft: 4, Seiten: 239-244
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B Came, Daniel / Allmacht Gottes / Gottesbeweis
RelBib Classification:AB Religionsphilosophie; Religionskritik; Atheismus
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Zusammenfassung:Daniel Came (2017) boldly argues that given certain assumptions, no omnipotent being can even in principle be the best explanation for some contingent state of affairs S. In this paper, I argue that (i) even given Came's assumptions, his argument rests crucially on a non sequitur, that (ii) he just assumes that the prior probability of God's existence is very low, and that (iii) his conclusions entail propositions that are very probably false.
Enthält:Enthalten in: European journal for philosophy of religion
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.24204/ejpr.v9i4.1827