The Existence of God

This book, the second in Swinburne's acclaimed trilogy on the philosophy of religion, examines the most important arguments for and against the existence of God--including the cosmological argument and arguments from design, consciousness and moral awareness, and miracles and religious experience. This revised includes two new appendices. In the first, Swinburne replies to criticisms of his arguments made by J.L. Mackie in this The Miracle of Theism and in the second, he assesses the evidential force of recent scientific discoveries of the extent to which the universe is "fine-tuned" to the production of animals and humankind.

"An excellent and important contribution to the philosophy of religion....No one interested in [the subject] can afford to ignore it....It is...the best and most philosophically interesting among recent defenses of theism."--The Thomist

"His arguments are uniformly insightful, clear, and interesting."--Religious Studies Review

Richard Swinburne presents a substantially rewritten and updated edition of his most celebrated book. No other work has made a more powerful case for the probability of the existence of God. Swinburne argues compellingly that the existence of the universe, its law-governed nature and fine-tuning, human consciousness and moral awareness, and evidence of miracles and religious experience, all taken together (and despite the occurrence of pain and suffering), make it likely that there is a God.

Introduction

1. Inductive Arguments

2. The Nature of Explanation

3. The Justification of Explanation

4. Complete Explanation

5. The Intrinsic Probability of Theism

6. The Explanatory Power of Theism: General Considerations

7. The Cosmological Argument

8. Teleological Arguments

9. Arguments from Consciousness and Morality

10. The Argument from Providence

11. The Problem of Evil

12. Arguments from History and Miracles

13. The Argument from Religious Experience

14. The Balance of Probability

Additional Note 1: The Trinity

Additional Note 2: Recent Arguments to Design from Biology

Additional Note 3: Plantinga's Argument Against Evolutionary Naturalism