Faith and Philosophy 21 (4):533 - 546 (2004)
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This paper comments on the other papers in this special issue of ’Faith and Philosophy’ on natural theology. It claims that most people today need both bare natural theology (to show that there is a God) and ramified natural theology (to establish detailed doctrinal claims), and that Christian tradition has generally claimed that cogent arguments of natural theology (of both kinds) are available. Plantinga’s "dwindling probabilities" objection against ramified natural theology is shown to have no force when different pieces of evidence are fed into the arguments at different stages. But showing the cogency of arguments of natural theology involves the lengthy process of helping people to see the correctness of certain moral views
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Keywords | Contemporary Philosophy Philosophy and Religion |
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ISBN(s) | 0739-7046 |
DOI | 10.5840/faithphil200421446 |
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