The Argument from Design - a Reply to R. G. Swinburne
Of all the arguments for the existence of God, the argument from design is in many respects the most impressive, as everyone remarks that Kant remarked. Certainly it is an argument which seems to have appealed to the popular imagination and even today does not lack philosophical proponents. The purp...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge Univ. Press
[1971]
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Religious studies
Year: 1971, Volume: 7, Issue: 4, Pages: 361-373 |
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| Summary: | Of all the arguments for the existence of God, the argument from design is in many respects the most impressive, as everyone remarks that Kant remarked. Certainly it is an argument which seems to have appealed to the popular imagination and even today does not lack philosophical proponents. The purpose of the present paper is to examine a recent formulation of the argument. In particular I shall be concerned to bring into the open its dualist assumptions and to show how these militate against its general plausibility. |
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| ISSN: | 1469-901X |
| Reference: | Kritik von "The Argument from Design, in: Philosophy 1968, Seite 199-200" Kritik in "The Argument from Design - a Defence (1972)" |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religious studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S003441250000041X |