Most people engage in what philosophers call “inductive” reasoning. People make accurate predictions about the future on the basis of conjunctions they have observed in the past. For example, I assume the sun will rise tomorrow because in the past I have observed it rise. Scientists, in particular, rely on extrapolations of this sort in […]
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Induction: Assuming the Uniformity of Nature
March 4th, 2011 Comments Off on Induction: Assuming the Uniformity of Nature
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A common objection to belief in the God of the Bible is that a good, kind, and loving deity would never command the wholesale slaughter of nations. In the tradition of his popular Is God a Moral Monster?, Paul Copan teams up with Matthew Flannagan to tackle some of the most confusing and uncomfortable passages of Scripture. Together they help the Christian and nonbeliever alike understand the biblical, theological, philosophical, and ethical implications of Old Testament warfare passages.
