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CHAPTER 7: EVOLUTION AND THE BIOLOGICAL ROLE OF PAIN
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4. Paul Draper, “The Skeptical Theist,” in The Evidential Argument From Evil, ed. Daniel Howard-Snyder (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1996), pp. 175–92.
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anthropocentrism, 138, 139
antitheism, 36–37
apatheism, 17–19, 36
archaeoastronomy, 168, 173
architectural motif, 154, 156–60, 165
atheism, new, 68–69, 70, 75
Babiak, Paul, 127
Ball, Philip, 163–64
Barth, Karl, 121
Christianity, 15, 18, 24, 45, 91, 121, 139
Cooke, Todd, 163–64
Crease, Robert, 182
creation, 139, 142, 143–45, 151, 156–57, 159, 160, 183, 187–89
Dawes, Gregory, 166
Dawkins, Richard, 13, 166
defeater, 79, 80, 122, 128, 181, 191
desirism, 101–106
Diderot, Denis, 203–204
divine commands, 119, 120–25
Draper, Paul, 177–79, 184
Einstein, Albert, 170, 171, 172, 173, 182
epistemology, 55, 125
Escher, M. C., 172
Euler, Leonhard, 203–205
Evans, C. Step
hen, 118
evidence, 22–23, 30–31, 41–43, 46–47, 49, 52–59, 61–63, 65–67, 70–71, 73–74, 76, 79, 80, 83, 146–47, 152, 155, 159, 161, 163, 173, 177, 180, 182, 184, 186, 191–92, 195–96, 204, 207
evidentialism, 42
evil, problem of, 175, 178, 190, 195
evolution, 80–81, 130, 175–87, 189–91, 193, 195–99, 201, 207
faith, 13, 16, 33, 41, 43–47, 49–53, 55–61, 63, 65, 160–62, 205
Fibonacci sequence, 154–55, 157–60, 163–64, 166
fideism, 41–43
Fyfe, Alonzo, 113
God
definition of, 24–28, 138
as evil, 28–33, 99
of-the-Gaps, 162, 167
and privacy, 37–40
Goodman, Nelson, 48
Hare, Robert, 127
Harris, Sam, 69
Hitchens, Christopher, 37, 39, 40
Howson, Colin, 65
Kant, Immanuel, 34, 144, 176
Likelihood Principle, 78
Mann, Charles, 182
massive theological disagreement (MTD), 65, 67, 69, 70–73, 75–77, 79–81, 83–85, 87, 89, 91–93, 95, 97, 98
moral calling, 115–21, 124
moral obligation, 29, 99–103, 115–21, 123–25, 193–94
moral perception, 107–13, 120, 127–29, 131, 194
moral semantics, 100
moral value, 29, 99, 100–103, 111, 119, 120, 123, 194
naturalism, 20, 29, 31, 32, 80, 81
Pape, Robert, 69
pi, 155, 157, 158, 159, 160, 164
Plait, Philip, 135, 137
Platonism, 31, 154
psychopathy, 127–28, 131
Rabe, John, 115–19, 120, 194
rational intuition, 108, 127
rationality, 41–44, 45–46, 49, 65, 207
Rauch, Jonathan, 17
religious violence, 68–70, 72–74
revelation, 77, 92–94
Rorty, Richard, 126
Russell, Bertrand, 125–26
Schellenberg, J. L., 34–35
secularism/secularization, 18, 19, 52, 70
skepticism, 34, 44, 50, 125, 130–32, 152, 168, 180, 202
Sober, Elliot, 54, 78
Stewart, Jon, 13
Stolum, Hans-Henrik, 155
strawman fallacy, 24, 97
theism, classical, 24, 25, 28, 29, 31, 32, 33, 36, 120, 187, 207
theology, 18–20, 95, 97–98, 138, 204
Tolstoy, Leo, 108–109, 110, 123
underdetermination, 30–31, 130
universe, hostility of, 133, 135–53, 164, 207, 211
Wigner, Eugene, 153–54, 169, 170, 171, 173