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Is There a God?

9780198235446

Is There a God?

  • ISBN 13:

    9780198235446

  • ISBN 10:

    0198235445

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 04/11/1996
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Summary

BLOffers a powerful response to modern doubts about the existence of God It may seem today that the answers to all fundamental questions lie in the province of science, and that the scientific advances of the twentieth century leave little room for God. Cosmologists have rolled back their theories to the moment of the Big Bang, the discovery of DNA reveals the key to life, the theory of evolution explains the development of life... and with each new discovery or development, it seems that we are closer to a complete understanding of how things are. For many people, this gives strength to the belief that God is not needed to explain the universe, that religious belief is not based on reason, and that the existence of God is, intellectually, a lost cause. Richard Swinburne argues that, on the contrary, science provides good grounds for belief in God. Why is there a universe at all? Why is there any life on Earth? How is it that discoverable scientific laws operate in the universe? Professor Swinburne uses the methods of scientific reasoning to argue that the best answers to these questions are given by the existence of God. The picture of the universe that science gives us is completed by God.

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