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THE ARGUMENT FROM ABSURDITY: A DIALOGUE BETWEEN AN ATHEIST AND BELIEVER
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2011
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Why do believers and atheists seem to talk past each other? From what different perspectives do they see things? The following dialogue suggests that one deep difference is about whether or not the World must make a certain kind of complete sense.
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1 Borrowed from a similar remark attributed to Gerald Priestland, the late BBC religious affairs correspondent, in the Priestland Memorial Lecture broadcast 17.10.93.
2 Bob's arguments along these lines resemble some of the ‘Five Ways’ of St Thomas Aquinas. And his view of the ontological argument (given later) is also like that of Aquinas.
3 Revelations 1:8
4 An idea proposed by Polkinghorne, John (1991) Reason and Reality London, SPCK (Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge)Google Scholar – where he also gives arguments for ‘fine tuning’ as evidence of creation.
5 Here I would like to thank my friend, John Sanders, who read an earlier draft and commented that his faith left him with many questions.