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Politics : Should God be replaced? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Solon who wrote (12167)	4/24/2002 8:45:04 AM
From: briskit	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 28931

Debate - Almost Overwhelming? polkinghorne.org are the Philosophical & Scientific Arguments for the Existence of God almost overwhelming? It's not that there are no other possibilities, it's just that the likelihoods, under the Atheist hypothesis, is infinitessimal. We'd normally dismiss someone who wanted to invent 10^23 un-knowable parallel universes to explain away an awkward fact.... Welcome to the debate page, at The Starcourse You can read the letters, that made the dialog for the Nicholas Beale and Prof Colin Howson debate - Published in Prospect Magazine, May 1998. (last updated 6 June 1998) If you would like to join our email discussion click here Alternatively you can look at the discussion postings and then join if you wish. The Letters in The Times From Mr Nicholas Beale Sir, The philosophical and scientific arguments for the existence of God are now almost overwhelming... People are free to choose what they believe. But if they fail to consider the arguments, they cannot claim to be educated, whatever their paper qualifications. From Professor Colin Howson Sir, I hope that the "philosophical and scientific" arguments that have persuaded Mr Beale of the existence of God are better than the one he himself presents Can't he really think of other explanations? What about human credulity and tolerance of low standards of evidence?... I might point out that I have yet to see an argument which to my satisfaction renders the existence of God, any god, more likely than not; mostly they're like Mr Beale's. What do you think? Discussion Jump to the emails As for evidence, I think it's fair to say that the evidence for Christianity is "almost overwhelming". Christianity, even as a hypothesis explains far more than Atheism... It's not that there are no other possibilities, it's just that the likelihoods, under the Atheist hypothesis, is infinitessimal. That's all you can expect in Science either - we'd normally dismiss someone who wanted to invent 10^23 un-knowable parallel universes to explain away an awkward fact as pretty desperate.