Scientific and Philosophical Challenges to Theism
General Physics
2008-02-14 v3 High Energy Physics - Theory
Abstract
Modern science developed within a culture of Judeo-Christian theism, and science and theism have generally supported each other. However, there are certainly areas in both science and religion that puzzle me. Here I outline some puzzles that have arisen for me concerning everlasting life, human free will, divine free will, the simplicity and probability of God, the problem of evil, and the converse problem of elegance.
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@article{arxiv.0801.0247,
title = {Scientific and Philosophical Challenges to Theism},
author = {Don N. Page},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0247},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
25 pages, LaTeX, to be published in Melville Y. Stewart, ed., Science and Religion in Dialogue (Blackwell Publishing Inc., Oxford), from a series of lectures sponsored by the Templeton Foundation and given at Shandong University in Jinan, China, autumn 2007; see also arXiv:0801.0245 and arXiv:0801.0246