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A naturalist cosmological argument

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 August 2017

BRIAN LEFTOW
BRIAN LEFTOW*
Affiliation:
Oriel College, Oxford OX1 4EW, UK
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e-mail: brian.leftow@oriel.ox.ac.uk
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Abstract

I rebut a ‘naturalist’ counter to Swinburne's Bayesian cosmological argument, based on the supposedly superior simplicity of naturalism.

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Religious Studies , Volume 53 , Special Issue 3: In Honour of Richard Swinburne , September 2017 , pp. 321 - 338
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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