Knowledge, Belief, and Faith

2007/07/01 by Anthony Kenny · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · #Theology and Philosophy of Evil #Classical Philosophy and Thought #Medieval and Classical Philosophy #Theism #Agnosticism #Atheism #Faith #Philosophy #Creed #Virtue #Epistemology #Belief in God #Religious belief #Religious studies #Theology

paper · doi:10.1017/s0031819107000010

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Abstract

Abstract Is belief in God reasonable? Richard Dawkins is right to say that traditional arguments for the existence of God are flawed; but so is his own disproof of the existence of God, and there are gaps in neo-Darwinian explanations of the origin of language, of life, and of the universe. The rational response is neither theism nor atheism but agnosticism. Faith in a creed is no virtue, but mere belief in God may be reasonable even if false.

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