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    <title>existence of God</title>
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    <namePart>Swinburne, Richard</namePart>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2004</dateIssued>
    <edition>Second edition</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>vi, 363 pages ; 23 cm</extent>
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  <abstract>Substantially re-written and updated, this edition of 'The Existence of God' presents arguments such as the existence of the laws of nature, 'fine-tuning' of the universe, moral awareness and evidence of miracles, to prove the case that there is a God</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>1. Inductive arguments -- 2. The nature of explanation -- 3. The justification of explanation -- 4. Complete explanation -- 5. The intrinsic probability of theism -- 6. The explanatory power of theism : general considerations -- 7. The cosmological argument -- 8. Teleological arguments -- 9. Arguments from consciousness and morality -- 10. The argument from providence -- 11. The problem of evil -- 12. Arguments from history and miracles -- 13. The argument from religious experience -- 14. The balance of probability -- Additional note 1 : the Trinity -- Additional note 2 : recent arguments to design from biology -- Additional note 3 : Plantinga's argument against evolutionary naturalism</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Richard Swinburne</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and index</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>God</topic>
    <topic>Proof</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Theism</topic>
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  <classification authority="lcc">212.1 H627E</classification>
  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">212.1 H627E</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0199271674</identifier>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9780199271689</identifier>
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