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Society of Christian Philosophers

Eastern Regional Meeting of the Society of Christian Philosophers

Thursday, September 24th through Saturday, September 26th, 2015, Messiah College

Featuring a debate about the existence of God

Robin Collins
Robin Collins

Messiah College

Robin Collins

Messiah College

Robin Collins will offer a new argument based on the fine-tuning of the cosmos. He will argue that the universe has been finely tuned to optimize the discoverability of physical laws and entities, which neither random chance, nor the multiverse can explain.

Paul Draper
Paul Draper

Purdue University

Paul Draper

Purdue University

Paul Draper will construct a pro tanto case against orthodox theism based on its immodesty and on its poor fit with a variety of known facts about pleasure and pain, love and hate, autonomy and heteronomy, achievement and failure, and virtue and vice.  Collins and Draper will each respond to the other’s presentations.

Meeting Theme: The Existence of God 

This theme is interpreted broadly.  It includes not only arguments for or against the existence of God, but a variety of other issues including, for example, questions about the nature of existence as it relates to God and the epistemology of theism. 

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