![]() ![]() ![]() Reflects Swinburne's latest thinking, and responds to current research. Substantially rewritten, revised, and updated: this is the definitive version for posterity. So I claim that if there is a God, it is probable that these phenomena will occur if there is no God it is most improbable that these phenomena will occur and God (of the kind postulated) is a very simple being (a single being, all of whose properties follow from his eternal omnipotence). A major new edition of a classic in the philosophy of religion. ![]() These criteria are that an explanatory hypothesis H is rendered probable by evidence E insofar as: (1) If H, probably E, (2) If not-H, probably not-E, (3) H is simple. The criteria which he uses in arguing from these general features to God are the criteria which detectives, historians, and physical scientists use to argue from their evidence E to a hypothesis H which probably explains E. Professor Swinburne argues that the most general phenomena of the universe make it probable that there is a God (in the sense of an eternal omnipotent, omniscient, perfectly free, and perfectly good personal creator and sustainer of the universe.) These most general phenomena are the existence of a physical universe governed by simple laws, the laws being ‘fine-tuned’ so as to lead to the existence of human bodies, and humans being conscious. ![]() Please note the change in venue from that previously advertised. ![]()
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