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Red-shift in light from more distant stars (ignoring some exceptions) Universe expanding (Doppler Shift) with no explanation for the exceptions and with a violation of the conservation of energy Universe static (“tired light”) Universe static (“changing constants”) Massive rock structure around the globe Earth’s surface results from low-power processes occasionally punctuated with local high-power processes over millions of years Earth’s surface results primarily from high-power global processes over thousands of years. Night sky is dark and roughly homogeneous in all directions Universe must be finite with the earth at the center Universe must be finite & closed with homogeneity throughout. If, then exist Therefore If “p”, then “q” “q” is true Therefore “p” is true = “assertion of the consequent” or “the generalization fallacy”ħ Observation or Measurement Interpretation(s) Universe ‘smaller’ apparent location Universe ‘larger’ apparent location observer actual locationĥ Logical Fallacy of Scientific Induction Man created to have dominion over nature starting with the correspondence God created between many of man’s empirically-based conceptions and nature’s design BUT the scientific method requires special additions (worldview dependent conjectures) in order to penetrate unobservable past & future domains Spatial domain of nature Temporal domain of natureĢ Space: which geometry? Spherical Euclidean Hyperbolicģ Hypothesized Geometry determines “distances”!! 20.1 Limitations of Observation-based, Empirical Knowledge 79 Nelson Pike, “God and Evil: A Reconsideration,” Ethics, LXVIII, 2 (1958), p. McCloskey, “The Problem of Evil,” Journal of Bible and Religion, XXX, 3 (1962), p. Mackie commits a similar mistake when adding quasi-logical rules to insure the contradiction in theism in “Evil and Omnipotence”, Mind, LXIV 254 (1955), pp. 82.ĭialogues Concerning Natural Religion, ed.

“God and Evil: A Study of Some Relations Between Faith and Morals,” Ethics, LXVIII, 2 (1958), p. Lewis, The Problem of Pain (New York: MacMillan, 1962).

Walter Kaufmann, The Faith of a Heretic (Garden City: Doubleday, 1961), p. Moore, Principia Ethica (Cambridge: The University Press, 1903), particularly sections 18–23.Ĭf. Alvin Plantinga, God and Other Minds (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1967), p.

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