Is There a God?
Richard Swinburne
Abstract
This book is a short and non-technical presentation of the cumulative argument for the existence of God. An explanatory hypothesis is probable insofar as it leads us to expect many otherwise inexplicable events to be explained, is simple, and fits in with ‘background knowledge’ (this is knowledge of how things work in fields outside the scope of the hypothesis and this last criterion drops out when there is little outside the scope of the hypothesis.) By these criteria, the existence and operation of God provides the best and most probably true explanation of the existence of the universe, it ... More
Keywords: cumulative argument, evil, evolution, explanation, laws of nature, probability, universe
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1996 | Print ISBN-13: 9780198235446 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: May 2007 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198235446.001.0001 |
