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Problems With John Earman's Attempt To Reconcile Theism With General Relativity

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Discussions of the intersection of general relativity and thephilosophy of religion rarely take place on the technical levelthat involves the details of the mathematical physics of generalrelativity. John Earman's discussion of theism and generalrelativity in his recent book on spacetime singularities is anexception to this tendency. By virtue of his technical expertise,Earman is able to introduce novel arguments into the debatebetween theists and atheists. In this paper, I state and examineEarman's arguments that it is rationally acceptable to believethat theism and general relativity form a mutually consistent oreven mutually supportive pair. I conclude that each of hisarguments is unsound.

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Smith, Q. Problems With John Earman's Attempt To Reconcile Theism With General Relativity. Erkenntnis 52, 1–27 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005547412396

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