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Bridging the Mackie–Plantinga Debate on Evil with Ibn Arabi’s Metaphysics

open access: yesReligions
This study examines how Ibn Arabi’s metaphysics can address key challenges in the contemporary philosophical debate on the problem of evil. John Mackie famously argues that the existence of an omnibenevolent and omnipotent God is logically incompatible ...
Elif Nur Balci
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EVOLUTION AND SPECIAL CREATION

open access: yesZygon, 1993
. The logical relationships between the ideas of evolution and of special creation are explored here in the context of a recent paper by Alvin Plantinga claiming that from the perspective of biblical religion it is more likely than not that God acted in
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Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)<sup>1</sup>. [PDF]

open access: yesAutophagy, 2021
Klionsky DJ   +2930 more
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Plantinga’s Reformed Epistemology and Religious Extremism: Some Historical Evidences

open access: yesJournal of Philosophical Investigations, 2015
According to Plantinga’s reformed epistemology, as perceptual beliefs, religious beliefs are properly basic, and therefore need no additional justification. But as it has been said frequently, this idea may lead to relativism.
Jalal Peykani
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Alvin Plantinga on the problem of evil: an examination

open access: yesAfrican Research Review, 2018
The existence of God is an enduring and popular philosophical problem that entwines with many aspects of human experience. One of these aspects is the reality or experience of evil. This experience creates a serious embarrassment to all official theological doctrines and monistic philosophy which claim that the source of all that happen and exists in ...
openaire   +3 more sources

In What Sense Is Theistic Evolution More Rational Than Naturalistic Evolution?

open access: yesStudia Philosophiae Christianae
Drawing on the contributions of logical positivism and the socio-historical perspective in the philosophy of science, I advocate the thesis of the empirical equivalence between metaphysical theistic and naturalistic interpretations of the evolutionary ...
Piotr Bylica
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ERNAN MCMULLIN ON CONTINGENCY, COSMIC PURPOSE, AND THE ATEMPORALITY OF THE CREATOR

open access: yesZygon, 2013
This article reviews, and offers supportive reflections on, the main points of Ernan McMullin's provocative 1998 article, “Cosmic Purpose and the Contingency of Human Evolution,’’ reprinted in this issue of Zygon.
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Darwin endures, despite disparagement. [PDF]

open access: yesSci Prog, 2018
Van Den Berg HA.
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BIBLICAL AND THEISTIC ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE EVOLUTIONARY ARGUMENT AGAINST NATURALISM

open access: yesZygon, 2017
Alvin Plantinga's evolutionary argument against naturalism states that evolution cannot produce warranted beliefs. In contrast, according to Plantinga, Christian theism provides (I) properly functioning cognitive faculties in (II) an appropriate ...
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