Atheism and Theism JJ Haldane - Common Sense Atheism

existence of knowable by reason, 4,
47, 79–80, 127–8, 134–5, 147–8,
189, 191, 244
existence of not logically necessary, 35
impassibility of, 129–31, 133, 136,
162, 240
interested in morality, 202
mysterious ways of, 65, 108, 127,
155, 210–12
nature of not knowable by reason,
127–9, 147, 182–4
needs designer?, 23–4, 209
not cause of self, 242
omnipotence of, 51, 60–2, 64–5,
165
perfection of, 130, 198–9, 202, 205
preconceived idea of, 127, 129, 205
presence of sensed, 44, 46
properties of, 3, 8, 33, 48, 59–60, 79,
122, 126, 129–33, 137–8, 142,
160, 162–4, 171, 183, 198–202,
205–7, 241, 243–4
properties of, identical, 132–3, 162,
164, 243
simplicity of, 22–4, 29, 129–33, 136,
160, 162, 164, 240–1, 243–4
golden mountain, 199
good, as explanation, 26, 30–1, 216
Gospel, Matthew, 57, 142
Mark, 55, 57–8, 185–6, 188
Luke, 57–8, 185, 187, 191
John, 104–5, 148, 182–5, 229
Gospels, history of, 56–7, 184–9
grace, 43, 47, 143, 190–1, 202, 213
grand universal theory, 23, 164, 215–16
‘Graphico’, imaginary artist, 78
Gribbin, J., 9
Guth, A.H., 20
Gödel, K., 207
Haldane, J.B.S., 17
Hartle, J., 36
Hawking, S., 15, 23, 36, 160
Haydn, J., 8
Hazen, A., 41
Index 263
headless woman illusion, 158
heaven, 47–8
Hegel, G.W.F., 235
Heidegger, M., 32, 235, 247
Heisenberg, W., 36
hell, 25, 47–8, 202, 213
Heraclitus, 3
Herodotus, 55
Hick, J., 68, 217
Hindu philosophy, 14, 65–6, 212
historical methods, 52, 54–9, 184–8
Hobart, R.E., 62, 166
Holsten, C., 55
homuncular regress, 93–4, 105, 156
Hopkins, G.M., 183
Hoyle, F., 16, 23, 226
Hubble, E., 66
Hughes, G.E., 69, 208
human agency, 141
human life, goal of, 141, 189–91
humanity, mechanist view of, 11
nature of, 56, 96–7, 108, 116, 140–1,
145–6, 173–4, 227, 229, 231,
244–8
Hume, D., 22–3, 46, 50, 52–3, 55–6,
77, 123–5, 146, 163, 218
identity, 131–3
identity versus composition, 178
identity theory of mind, 97–8, 227
illusion, 14, 44, 65
image of God, 104, 116, 189, 191, 240,
245
in act/in potency, 130–1, 235
Incarnation, 68, 143–4, 148, 182–3,
189
incarnation, elsewhere, 25, 68
indeterminacy, 36, 62–3, 114–15,
125–6, 144–5
of translation, 169n.
infinities, 21, 47–8, 65, 68, 113–14,
122–3, 160, 211, 231
innatism, 102–3, 105, 228, 230
intellect, passive and active, 103–4, 190
intelligible, making, 121