Atheists like Adam Hazzard argue that God isn’t a good explanation for anything because God can’t be falsified. (Allegedly. Though of course you can demonstrate that God-under-a-particular-description is false, e.g. by demonstrating that the description is incoherent or self-defeating.) But here is the problem. Whatever happens, you can just say Goddidit! And that provides no […]
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Why no professional philosopher would use Dawkins’ argument
I have been accused of being unfair to Dick Dawkins. Well let’s look at what Dawkins calls “the central argument of my book” (The God Delusion, 187). He summarizes it in six steps. Steps 4-6 are not directly relevant to the core of the argument against God, so I’ve only reproduced steps 1-3 (see The […]
