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The existence of God

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Clarendon Press, 1979 - Religion - 296 pages
Richard Swinburne presents a substantially rewritten and updated edition of his most celebrated book. No other work has made a more powerful case for the probability of the existence of God. Swinburne argues compellingly that the existence of the universe, its law-governed nature andfine-tuning, human consciousness and moral awareness, and evidence of miracles and religious experience, all taken together (and despite the occurrence of pain and suffering), make it likely that there is a God.

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Richard Swinburne makes a cumulative argument in The Existence of God, claiming that given considerations like the existence and fine-tuning of the universe, objective morality, consciousness ... Read full review

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The most comprehensive account I've come across so far. Very good read, convincing account with strong argument, and goes into a lot of detail. Quite a tough read to start with, but it's OK once you ... Read full review

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Contents

Introduction
1
Inductive Arguments
5
The Nature of Explanation
22
Copyright

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Richard Swinburne was Professor of Philosophy at the University of Keele; Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion, University of Oxford, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of many books on the nature and justification of religious belief, and on other areas of
philosophy including the philosophy of mind and epistemology.

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