God, Evil and Design : an Introduction to the Philosophical Issues.

Although vast and complex, the universe is orderly in many ways, and conditions at its beginning were right for the eventual evolution of life on this planet. But with life there is death, and with sentient life there is great pain and suffering, often with no apparent justification or purpose. Taki...

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Main Author: O'Connor, David
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester : John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
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505 0 |a Preface; Part I Introduction; 1 What We Are Going to Investigate, and How; 2 Terminology; Part II The Logic of God and Evil; 3 Is the Existence of God Impossible?; 4 A Free-Will Defense of the Possibility that God Exists; Part III Design and Evil; 5 Natural Order, Natural Selection, and Supernatural Design (1); 6 Natural Order, Natural Selection, and Supernatural Design (2); Part IV Evil and Design (1); 7 Is the Existence of God Improbable?; 8 Skeptical Defenses; 9 Evaluating Skeptical Defenses; Part V Evil and Design (2); 10 Greater-Good Defenses; 11 Evaluating Greater-Good Defenses. 
505 8 |a Part VI Taking Stock12 Taking Stock; Index. 
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