The issue of whether or not there is a God is one of the oldest and most widely disputed philosophical questions. "Where did the universe come from?", "what explains the apparent order of nature?" These and other puzzles have led to the development of two kinds of metaphysics: on the one hand that which posits an ultimate creative cause beyond the material universe; and on the other that which seeks for explanations within nature and denies that there is the need for, or even the possibility of, a supernatural order. The debate between atheism and theism spreads far across the range of philosophical questions about the status of science, the nature of mind, the character of good and evil and the epistemology of experience and testimony. In this book two philosophers each committed to unambiguous versions of belief and disbelief debate the central issues of atheism and theism.
- ISBN10 0631192913
- ISBN13 9780631192916
- Publish Date 23 September 1996
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 March 1999
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Imprint Blackwell Publishers
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English