The Presumption of Atheism

In Charles Taliaferro & Philip L. Quinn (eds.), A Companion to Philosophy of Religion. Cambridge, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 449–457 (1997)
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challenges to theistic belief   presumption of atheism ‐ not the presumptuous insolence, at the beginning of the final book of The Laws   Plato accusing those who dare to disbelieve in “the existence of the gods” and salutary and inflexible interventions in human affairs   distinguishing three elements of analogy, between presumption of atheism and presumption of innocence   positive analogy, perhaps paradoxical consequence of the second   knowledge, is of course crucially different from mere true belief   Aquinas in his response to the challenge ‐ taking conception of God as an unquestionable given, deploying his five promised proofs   Joseph Butler in The Analogy of Religion: Natural and Revealed ‐ “ten thousand instances of design cannot but prove a Designer”   crucial distinction between two senses of the word “experience” and its semantic associates

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original Flew, Antony (1972) "The Presumption of Atheism". Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2(1):29-46

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