Monday, April 09, 2007

Question for Vic Stenger

In a post that is largely concerned with taking PZ Myers to task, Wilkins writes:

Take, for example, "God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist" (Victor J Stenger). Stenger is pretty careful to say that he is attacking the popular view of religion with science, and he does so successfully. All the things that the populist god is called into explain are better explained by science, and therefore one can conclude that the populist god does not exist. He has a handwave in the first chapter to philosophical arguments against the philosophical god, which may or may not work (I think the problem of Evil is a knockdown against the tri-omni deity, but if you relax that constraint, there are no knockdown arguments against gods as such), but he does not try to claim that his arguments from science even affect the philosophical god.

Wonder if Stenger agrees that

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