Criticism of positive theistic arguments in the polemic of theism and atheism
In the article the author analyzes the arguments of the theist W.L. Craig for the existence of the omnipotent, all-good, timeless God of classical theism as well as counter-arguments of W. Sinnot-Armstrong. W.L. Craig used five arguments, they are Kalam cosmological argument, fine-tuning argument, o...
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| description | In the article the author analyzes the arguments of the theist W.L. Craig for the existence of the omnipotent, all-good, timeless God of classical theism as well as counter-arguments of W. Sinnot-Armstrong. W.L. Craig used five arguments, they are Kalam cosmological argument, fine-tuning argument, objective moral values argument, argument from the testimonies of the gospels and argument from religious experience. Craig seeks to show that when we take all these arguments together, they increase the probability of the existence of the God of classical theism. Sinnot-Armstrong, in turn, criticized all these arguments and seeks to show with varying levels of credibility that every Craig’s argument can be refuted within the framework of an atheistic approach. He exposes the argument from the existence of objective moral values to the most detailed criticism, while speaking from the position of moral realism and Platonism. Sinnot-Armstrong criticized fine-tuning argument least convincingly. He accepted the fact that there is no good atheistic response to this argument, but he used usual rhetorical attacks against theism. He uncritically repeated the model of the war between science and religion. As a result of the analysis of the controversy between Craig and Sinnot-Armstrong, the author of the article comes to several conclusions. Firstly, atheism is combined with various metaphysical attitudes, from naturalism to Platonism. Secondly, an atheist may hold different views on the problem of free will between determinism and indeterminism. Thus, since atheism is very heterogeneous in itself, most of the Sinnot-Armstrong counter-arguments are not universally applicable to atheists. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c1f002c088ff4c1b905ca37d11eb67552023-03-08T10:10:06ZrusSt. Tikhon's Orthodox UniversityВестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия1991-640X2409-46922022-12-011011018295http://dx.doi.org/10.15382/sturI2022101.82-956Criticism of positive theistic arguments in the polemic of theism and atheismValeriya Sleptsova0Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences; 12/1 Goncharnaia Str., 109240, Moscow, Russian FederationIn the article the author analyzes the arguments of the theist W.L. Craig for the existence of the omnipotent, all-good, timeless God of classical theism as well as counter-arguments of W. Sinnot-Armstrong. W.L. Craig used five arguments, they are Kalam cosmological argument, fine-tuning argument, objective moral values argument, argument from the testimonies of the gospels and argument from religious experience. Craig seeks to show that when we take all these arguments together, they increase the probability of the existence of the God of classical theism. Sinnot-Armstrong, in turn, criticized all these arguments and seeks to show with varying levels of credibility that every Craig’s argument can be refuted within the framework of an atheistic approach. He exposes the argument from the existence of objective moral values to the most detailed criticism, while speaking from the position of moral realism and Platonism. Sinnot-Armstrong criticized fine-tuning argument least convincingly. He accepted the fact that there is no good atheistic response to this argument, but he used usual rhetorical attacks against theism. He uncritically repeated the model of the war between science and religion. As a result of the analysis of the controversy between Craig and Sinnot-Armstrong, the author of the article comes to several conclusions. Firstly, atheism is combined with various metaphysical attitudes, from naturalism to Platonism. Secondly, an atheist may hold different views on the problem of free will between determinism and indeterminism. Thus, since atheism is very heterogeneous in itself, most of the Sinnot-Armstrong counter-arguments are not universally applicable to atheists.https://periodical.pstgu.ru/ru/pdf/article/7848atheism cosmological argument fine-tuning argument kalam cosmological argument objective moral values religious experience theismатеизм каламический аргумент космологический аргумент объективные моральные ценности религиозный опыт теизм тонкая настройка |
| spellingShingle | Valeriya Sleptsova Criticism of positive theistic arguments in the polemic of theism and atheism Вестник Православного Свято-Тихоновского гуманитарного университета: Серия I. Богословие, философия atheism cosmological argument fine-tuning argument kalam cosmological argument objective moral values religious experience theism атеизм каламический аргумент космологический аргумент объективные моральные ценности религиозный опыт теизм тонкая настройка |
| title | Criticism of positive theistic arguments in the polemic of theism and atheism |
| title_full | Criticism of positive theistic arguments in the polemic of theism and atheism |
| title_fullStr | Criticism of positive theistic arguments in the polemic of theism and atheism |
| title_full_unstemmed | Criticism of positive theistic arguments in the polemic of theism and atheism |
| title_short | Criticism of positive theistic arguments in the polemic of theism and atheism |
| title_sort | criticism of positive theistic arguments in the polemic of theism and atheism |
| topic | atheism cosmological argument fine-tuning argument kalam cosmological argument objective moral values religious experience theism атеизм каламический аргумент космологический аргумент объективные моральные ценности религиозный опыт теизм тонкая настройка |
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