Theism And Explanation by Jean Dawes
A philosophical evaluation of whether appeals to God can serve as genuine explanations in science and history, it scrutinizes criteria such as testability, causal specificity, and predictive power. It argues that theistic hypotheses typically lack independent support and explanatory depth, often halting inquiry rather than advancing it, and thus compare unfavorably to naturalistic accounts. Drawing on tools like inference to the best explanation and Bayesian confirmation, it concludes that invoking a divine agent rarely meets the standards by which we judge good explanations.
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