THE ANTHOLOGY
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J. L. Mackie (1977) Evil & Omnipotence
Mackie's classic attack on the existence of God using the problem of evil & suffering, in which he weighs up all the solutions to the problem and finds them flawed |
Flew & Hare (1971) Theology & Falsification
Anthony Flew and R.M. Hare attack religious language for being meaningless, based on the famous "Parable of the Gardener" and the idea of bliks |
EXTRACT #3
Mitchell & Flew (1971) Theology & Falsification
Basil Mitchell's reply to Flew, involving the famous "Parable of the Partisan" and Anthony Flew's summary/conclusions. |
EXTRACT #4
Russell & Coplestone (1948) A debate on the existence of God
Another classic: Bertrand Russell and Fr Frederick Copleston debate the Cosmological Argument and the Argument from Religious Experience. This is a transcript of the original BBC radio broadcast. |
The conclusions flow logically from the premises. For example, Mackie argues that there's a contradiction between having a universe with evil and God in it. If the conclusions really do flow logically from the premises, then the argument is VALID. Otherwise, it's INVALID.
If there's a logical problem and the conclusions don't follow from the premises, the argument is INVALID. |
An invalid argument might still be true... but it's only 'accidentally' true. It's not true because it's a good argument.
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