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Two ‘Proofs’ of God's Existence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

A. C. Ewing
A. C. Ewing
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Reader in Philosophy, University of Cambridge
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I do not think that the existence of God can be proved or even that the main justification for the belief can be found in argument in the ordinary sense of that term, but I think two of the three which have, since Kant at least, been classified as the traditional arguments of natural theology have some force and are worthy of serious consideration. This consideration I shall now proceed to give. I cannot say this of the remaining one of the arguments, the ‘ontological proof’, which I shall therefore not discuss here.

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Research Article
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Religious Studies , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , October 1965 , pp. 29 - 45
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1965

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Page 29 note 1 See my article on ‘Awareness of God’ in Philosophy, 01 1965.Google Scholar

Page 31 note 1 Some of the objections to this argument also appear as objections to the argument from design which I discuss later in this article. I reply to them below.

Page 32 note 1 For a fuller discussion of this, see my Idealism, ch. iv, sect. 3.

Page 33 note 1 Mind, 1948, reprinted in Flew and MacIntyre, New Essays in Philosophical Theology. It is said that Prof. Findlay no longer holds the views expressed there in their entirety.

Page 35 note 1 Contemporary British Philosophy, ed. Muirhead, J. H., First Series, p. 418.Google Scholar

Page 42 note 1 God and Nature, p. 262.