Natural Nonbelief as a Necessary Means to a Life of Choiceworthy Meaning

Many have thought that certain types and distributions of apparent nonresistant nonbelief in the world are among the best reasons to think naturalism is more probable than theism. Jason Marsh has argued that one specific type of nonresistant nonbelief, called natural nonbelief in early humans, suppo...

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Main Author: Vandergriff, Kevin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: De Gruyter 2016
In: Open theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 2, Issue: 1, Pages: 34–52
Further subjects:B Choiceworthy
B Divine Hiddenness
B Fundamentality Theory of Meaning
B Theism
B Axiarchism
B Connection Building
B Naturalism
B Defense
B Natural Nonbelief
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