Энтони флю: подведение итогов

 

Я весьма впечатлён подходом епископа Райта, который является абсолютно новым. Он впервые представил аргументы в пользу христианства в новом свете. Это чрезвычайно важно, особенно в Великобритании, где христианская религия практически исчезла. Его доводы абсолютно потрясающие, абсолютно радикальные и очень мощные.

Есть ли вероятность того, что божественное откровение имело место или может произойти? Как я уже сказал, вы не можете ограничить возможности всемогущества, за исключением того, что логически невозможно. Всё остальное всемогуществу под силу.

 

Ссылки на источники

 

ПРЕДИСЛОВИЕ

 

1. Sir Alfred Ayer, “The Existence of the Soul,” in Great Thinkers on Great Questions, ed. Roy Abraham Varghese (Oxford: OneWorld, 1998), 49.

2. “Modernizing the Case for God,” Time, April 7, 1980.

3. Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion (London: Bantam, 2006), 140.

4. Lewis Wolpert, Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast (London: Faber and Faber, 2006), 217.

5. Daniel Dennett, “Living on the Edge,” Inquiry 1/2 (1993): 141.

6. Dawkins, The God Delusion, 58–59.

7. Dawkins, The God Delusion, 82.

8. Richard Dawkins, What We Believe but Cannot Prove, ed. John Brockman (London: Pocket Books, 2005), 9.

9. Julia Vitullo-Martin, “A Scientist’s Scientist,” http://www.templeton.org/milestones/milestones_2006–04.asp.

10. Dawkins, The God Delusion, 355.

11. Katharine Tait, My Father, Bertrand Russell (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1975), 189.

12. Bertrand Russell, The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1967), 146.

13. J. H. Muirhead, ed., Contemporary British Philosophy, vol. 1 (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1924), 79.

14. J. N. Findlay, “Can God’s Existence Be Disproved?” in New Essays in Philosophical Theology, ed. Antony Flew and Alasdair MacIntyre (New York: Macmillan, 1955), 47.

15. The report of Hawking’s conversations with the driver of his special-needs vehicle, Saul Pasternak, an Orthodox Jew, are found in “The Driver of Mister Hawking,” an article in the Hebrew weekly newspaper Jerusalem, December 22, 2006, p. 28. I am indebted to my friend the Israeli physicist and author Gerald Schroeder for bringing this to my attention.

16. Albert Einstein, The Quotable Einstein, ed. Alice Calaprice (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), 238.

 

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СОТВОРЕНИЕ АТЕИСТА

 

1. G. E. M. Anscombe, The Collected Papers of G. E. M. Anscombe, vol. 2, Metaphysics and the Philosophy of Mind (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1981), x.

 

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КУДА ВЕДУТ ДОКАЗАТЕЛЬСТВА

 

1. Michael Dummett, Truth and Other Enigmas (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1978), 431.

2. I. M. Crombie, “The Possibility of Theological Statements,” in Faith and Logic, ed. Basil Mitchell (London: Allen & Unwin), 50.

3. Crombie, “The Possibility of Theological Statements,” 73, 72.

4. Raeburne Heimbeck, Theology and Meaning (London: Allen & Unwin, 1969), 123, 163.

5. Eric L. Mascall, The Openness of Being (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1971), 63.

6. J. L. Mackie, The Miracle of Theism (Oxford: Clarendon, 1982), 1.

7. Frederick C. Copleston, Philosophers and Philosophies (London: Search Press, 1976), 76.

8. Anthony Kenny, Faith and Reason (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983), 86.

9. Kai Nielsen, review of The Presumption of Atheism by Antony Flew,Religious Studies Review 3 (July 1977): 147

 

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СПОКОЙНОЕ РАССМОТРЕНИЕ АТЕИЗМА

 

1. Gerald Schroeder, “Has Science Discovered God?” http://science.lenicam.com.

2. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976), x.

 

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ПАЛОМНИЧЕСТВО РАЗУМА

 

1. Albert Einstein, Out of My Later Years (New York: Philosophical Library, 1950), 58.

2. David Conway, The Rediscovery of Wisdom (London: Macmillan, 2000), 74.

3. Conway, The Rediscovery of Wisdom, 2–3.

 

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КТО НАПИСАЛ ЗАКОНЫ ПРИРОДЫ?

 

1. Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (New York: Bantam, 1988), 175, 174.

2. Gregory Benford, “Leaping the Abyss: Stephen Hawking on Black Holes, Unified Field Theory and Marilyn Monroe,” Reason 4.02 (April 2002): 29.

3. Albert Einstein, quoted in Timothy Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way (New York: Morrow, 1988), 177.

4. Antony Flew, God and Philosophy (New York: Dell, 1966), 15.

5. Max Jammer, Einstein and Religion (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999), 44.

6. Jammer, Einstein and Religion, 45.

7. Jammer, Einstein and Religion, 45–46.

8. Jammer, Einstein and Religion, 48.

9. Jammer, Einstein and Religion, 150.

10. Jammer, Einstein and Religion, 51.

11. Jammer, Einstein and Religion, 148.

12. Albert Einstein, Lettres a Maurice Solovine reproduits en facsimile et traduits en francais (Paris: Gauthier-Vilars, 1956), 102–3.

13. Albert Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, trans. Sonja Bargmann (New York: Dell, 1973), 49.

14. Einstein, Ideas and Opinions, 255.

15. Jammer, Einstein and Religion, 93.

16. Albert Einstein, The Quotable Einstein, ed. Alice Calaprice (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2005), 195–6.

17. For the most part, these quotations are taken from Roy Abraham Varghese, The Wonder of the World (Fountain Hills, AZ: Tyr, 2003).

18. Werner Heisenberg, Across the Frontiers, trans. Peter Heath (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1974), 213.

19. Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Beyond (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1971), excerpted in Timothy Ferris, ed., The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy and Mathematics (New York: Little, Brown, 1991), 826.

20. Erwin Schrödinger, My View of the World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1964), 93.

21. Max Planck, Where Is Science Going? trans. James Murphy (New York: Norton, 1977), 168.

22. Max Planck, quoted in Charles C. Gillespie, ed., Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York: Scribner, 1975), 15.

23. Paul A. M. Dirac, “The Evolution of the Physicist’s Picture of Nature,” Scientific American 208, no. 5 (May 1963): 53.

24. Charles Darwin, The Autobiography of Charles Darwin 1809-1882, ed. Nora Barlow (London: Collins, 1958), 92–3.

25. Paul Davies, Templeton Prize Address, May 1995, http://aca.mq.edu.au/PaulDavies/prize_address.htm. See also Davies’s “Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From?” (2006), http://www.ctnsstars.org/conferences/papers/Wheredothelawsofphysicscomefrom.doc.

26. John Barrow, Templeton Prize Address, March 15, 2006, http://www.templetonprize.org/barrow_statement.html.

27. John Foster, The Divine Lawmaker: Lectures on Induction, Laws of Nature and the Existence of God (Oxford: Clarendon, 2004), 160

28. Richard Swinburne, “Design Defended,” Think (Spring 2004): 14.

29. Paul Davies, “What Happened Before the Big Bang?” in God for the 21st Century, ed. Russell Stannard (Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 2000), 12.

 

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