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Is simplicity that simple? an assessment of Richard Swinburne’s argument from cosmic fine-tuning
- Abstract:
- The teleological argument has received a resurgence in recent years. This is thanks to cosmological data which appears to offer new evidence to indicate that the existence of life is the result of contrivance in the face of staggering improbability. Richard Swinburne argues that cosmic fine-tuning gives us good evidence to believe in the creator God of classical theism, who has good reasons to create human agents. I assess Swinburne’s use of the “principle of simplicity” as a criterion for selecting the best explanation in this particular case, arguing that it is not as compelling as Swinburne claims.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1080/14746700.2021.1982250
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- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Journal:
- Theology and Science More from this journal
- Volume:
- 19
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 379-389
- Publication date:
- 2021-10-12
- Acceptance date:
- 2019-11-13
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1474-6700
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English
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1123484
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2020-08-04
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- Copyright holder:
- Emily Qureshi-Hurst
- Copyright date:
- 2021
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- © 2021 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/ licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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