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THE CASE AGAINST THEISM - RAPHAEL LATASTER GEBU...

This monograph offers a critique of arguments for the existence of a specifically Christian God
advanced by prominent scholar William Lane Craig. The discussion incorporates philosophical 
mathematical  scientific  historical  and sociological approaches. The author does not seek to
criticize religion in general  or Christianity specifically. Rather  he examines the modern and
relatively sophisticated evidential case for Christian theism. Scholars have been arguing for
theism or naturalism for centuries  and there seems little to add to the discussion  especially
from the theistic side. However  to assume that either theism or naturalism obtains is a false
dichotomy. There are alternatives to both that merit consideration. Employing a probabilistic
approach  the author advances this discussion. His work uniquely utilizes not only naturalistic
hypotheses to argue against theism. It also presents supernaturalistic hypotheses. This leaves
no question that theism is almost certainly false  even if some form of divine reality
exists.This project seeks not to argue that Christianity or any other faith or religion is
undesirable  but only to critically examine evidentialist claims posited by Christianity's
learned apologists. In fact  a major secondary aim is to consider alternative god-conceptions 
such as polytheism and pantheism. This work aims to highlight that Christian theism is often
granted special privileges by theistic philosophers of religion  which seems doubly
inappropriate when certain alternative god-conceptions may even prove to be more plausible.

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