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(see genetic fallacy); representational
(see representational fallacy)
falsifi ability, 174 n.73. See also theistic
explanations: falsifi ability of.
Farabi, al-. See al-Farabi, Abu Nasr.
Feuerbach, Ludwig, 64
F
fi ne-tuning argument, 70–71, 177 n.42.
See also design argument.
feline psychology, 48, 49, 174 n.65
folk psychology, 46, 147, 188 n.62
folk theology, 46
Forrest, Barbara, 9–11
free will: conceptions of, 186 n.22;
defence, 98
G
Gale, Barry G., 26
Galilei, Galileo, 138
Garcia, Laura L., 90–91
Genesis. See creation story.
genetic fallacy, 10
geology, nineteenth-century, 1, 12
Gerber, Paul, 182 n.11
Gey, Steven G., 9–11
Gillespie, Neal C., 168 n.42
Ginet, Carl, 186 n.8
God; analogical language regarding,
47–48, 139; concepts of, 19–20,
48–49 (see also theism: coherence
of); direct experience of, 173 n.27;
literal language regarding, 48, 139
Goodman, Alvin, 112
Gould, Stephen Jay, 83–84, 86
Grayling, A. C., 86.
gremlin hypothesis, 105–106
Grünbaum, Adolf, 52–53, 173 n.41
H
Haack, Susan, 2, 145
Hampshire, Stuart, 186 n.6
Hart, H. L. A., 186 n.6
Hempel, Carl G: on deductive-nomological
model of explanation,
170 n.11; on entailment, 28–29,
171 n.47; on explanation as aim
of science, 168 n.43; on Nicod’s
criterion, 182 n.14; on the raven
paradox, 103, 121, 122, 182 n.16;
on testability, 116
Herschel, J. F. W., 127, 136–37, 181
n.42
Higgs boson, 75
Himma, Kenneth Einar, 180 n.15
Himmler, Heinrich, 159
Hoffman, Joshua, 174 n.66
Holy Spirit, internal testimony of. See
internal testimony of the Holy
Spirit.
Honoré, A. M., 186 n.6
Horton, Robin, 7, 173 n.28
Huckleberry Finn, 159
Hughes, Gerard J., 46
Hume, David: on argument from evil,
97; on causation (see causation:
Humean defi nitions of); on coherence
of theism, 46–47, 174 n.66;
on explaining the explanans, 170
n.82; on independent specifi cation
criterion, 77, 82, 97; on induction,
104; and Malebranche, 177
n.24; on miracles, 72, 74–75, 178
nn.45, 54; on proportioning cause
to effect, 101, 179 n.33; scepticism
of, 96, 172 n.10; and suboptimality
arguments, 86; on theistic
explanations, 169 n.73
Huxley, Thomas Henry, 14, 26–27, 169
n.71
hypotheses and theories, 23. See also
explanations: proposed, potential,
and actual.
hypothesis of indifference, 124, 134–35
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ideal types, 147–48
incontinent action. See weakness of
will.
independent specifi cation criterion, 31,
77, 82, 97, 178 n.14
Indian Ocean tsunami. See tsunami,
Boxing Day.
induction, 103–4. See also abduction
and induction.
inference to the best explanation: as
apparently fallacious reasoning,
109; theism best defended as, 31,
33, 170 n.6, 172 n.20; when only
one proposed explanation on offer,
110–12, 122–25
informativeness, 138–42
in principle objection. See theistic explanations:
in principle objections to.
instrumentalism. See realism and antirealism.
intellectualist theories of religion. See
theories of religion: intellectualist.