Edward Feser defends the ‘Neo-Platonic proof’ for existence of God classical theism. After articulating argument and a number preliminaries, I first argue that premise three Feser’s – causal principle every composite object requires sustaining efficient cause to combine its parts is both unjustified dialectically ill-situated. then Neo-Platonic proof fails deliver mindedness absolutely simple b...

Monotheistic religions such as Judaism and Christianity affirm that God loves all humans and created them in His image. However, we have learned from Darwin that we were not created separately from other life on earth. Some Christians opposed Darwinian evolution because it undercut certain design arguments for the existence of God. Today there is the growing idea that the fine-tuned constants o...

Abstract Relying on inference to the best explanation (IBE) requires one hold intuition that world is ‘intelligible’, is, such states of affairs at least generally have explanations for their obtaining. I argue metaphysical naturalists are rationally required withhold this intuition, unless they cease be naturalists. This because all plausible naturalistic aetiologies entail and state which it ...

In this paper, I consider Richard Swinburne’s treatment of the idea divine goodness in his new article “God’s Moral Goodness” with reference to understanding these three themes: prior probability theism; predictive power theism relative naturalism respect various generic features world; and question why God should have made world particular. each case, my intention is not fundamentally challeng...