Author Archives: David Glass
Does Atheism Require Faith?
In discussions about belief in God, there is a lot of confusion about the word ‘faith’. Atheists sometimes take faith to mean belief without evidence; Christians reject this notion of faith because biblical faith is never ‘blind’. Rather confusingly, though, sometimes you’ll hear Christians say that it takes more faith to be an atheist than it does to believe in God.
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Design in Biology and Physics
This is a lecture I gave at the conference Design in Nature? Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives, which took place at Hughes Hall, Cambridge on 14th July, 2012. I discuss the notion of explaining away and argue that there is no good reason to think that design has been explained away either in physics or biology.
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