Titlebook: Scientific Approaches to the Philosophy of Religion; Yujin Nagasawa Book 2012 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limit

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Polarized Yet Warranted Christian Beliefas inspired seemingly endless debate with no rational resolution in sight. To cite some classic contemporary exponents of either side of the debate, on one side, Swinburne (1991a) argues that a variety of aspects of the world and our experience of it constitutes evidence . God’s existence, an argume

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Freedom, Science and Religionecent decades experimental psychologists, and philosophers working on the data they provide (henceforth shortened to just ‘experimental psychologists’), have produced exciting evidence related to these issues — evidence about how we go about choosing, thinking about our choices and developing our ch

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The Compatibility of Science and Religion: Why the Warfare Thesis Is Falsebscribed to what is known as the ‘warfare’ thesis about the relationship between science and religion (Desmond, 1994, 1997). They argued that science and religion are in conflict, and that, if one holds to the one, one cannot hold to the other (Draper, 1875; White, 1896). The name of Galileo came up

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Introductioncal experiences and biblical revelations. In the second approach, call it the ‘conceptual approach’, philosophers and theologians try to comprehend the existence and nature of God primarily through rational and analytical thinking.

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The Necessity of God and the Psychology of Counterfactual Thinkingver, independence and incorruptibility are themselves not accidental properties of God, but essential ones. These aspects of his being, suggests John Findlay (as a prelude to an atheistic proof), are required if God is to be truly worthy of worship:

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Why Would Anyone Believe in a Timeless God? Two Types of Theologytitioners of other disciplines have such feelings on occasion. The difference is that recently the proposition that theology is a waste of time has been advanced as a thesis that has scientific support.

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Darwin’s Argument from Eviln theologians who hold this position infer from it not that there is no God, but instead that the theory of evolution is false!). Consider, for example, the following three frequently quoted remarks. According to Bertrand Russell (1997, pp. 79–80),

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Attributing Agency: Fast and Frugal or All Things Considered?s this attribution of agency. Using insights from contemporary cognitive science and philosophy of mind, I offer a characterization of the cognitive process by which agency is attributed to ourselves, and religious entities. Along the way I address two questions. How do we attribute agency? And, why do we attribute agency?

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