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Title
An agnostic defends God : how science and philosophy support agnosticism / Bryan Frances.
ISBN
9783030733315 (electronic bk.)
3030733319 (electronic bk.)
9783030733308
3030733300
Published
Cham : Springer, [2021]
Copyright
©2021
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (159 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-030-73331-5 doi
Call Number
B808
Dewey Decimal Classification
211/.7
Summary
This book contains a unique perspective: that of a scientifically and philosophically educated agnostic who thinks there is impressiveif maddeningly hiddenevidence for the existence of God. Science and philosophy may have revealed the poverty of the familiar sources of evidence, but they generate their own partial defense of theism. Bryan Frances, a philosopher with a graduate degree in physics, judges the standard evidence for Gods existence to be awful. And yet, like many others with similar scientific and philosophical backgrounds, he argues that the usual reasons for atheism, such as the existence of suffering and success of science, are weak. In this book you will learn why so many people with scientific and philosophical credentials are agnostics (rather than atheists) despite judging all the usual evidence for theism to be fatally flawed. Bryan Frances is Associate Professor of Philosophy at United Arab Emirates University.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Chapter 1: Introduction: A Peculiar Defense of God
Chapter 2: Rational Belief in God
Chapter 3: Irrational Belief in God
Chapter 4: The Design of Life and the Laws of Nature
Chapter 5: The Origin of the Universe
Chapter 6: The Problem of Suffering
Chapter 7: Intractable Religious Disagreement
Chapter 8: Why Advanced Science and Philosophy Support Humility
Chapter 9: The Experience Argument for God
Chapter 10: Two Troubles with Agnosticism.
