Richard Swinburne

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Richard Swinburne (born 1934) is a British philosopher of religion, formerly Nolloth Professor at Oxford, and the most influential academic defender of theism of the last fifty years. His The Existence of God (1979; 2nd ed. 2004) assembles the cumulative case in Bayesian form, treating the regularity of nature, fine-tuning, consciousness, beauty and religious experience as strands that together make theism more probable than not. He appears here as the author of the strongest versions of several of the arguments.

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Argument from Beauty

As stated by Richard Swinburne, Alvin Plantinga ("the argument from the beauty of Mozart"), and in Catholic apologetics after Hans Urs von Balthasar:

Argument from Consciousness

As stated by Richard Swinburne (The Existence of God, 2004, ch. 9) and J. P. Moreland (Consciousness and the Existence of God, 2008):

Argument from the Laws of Nature

As used by Richard Swinburne (the argument from "regularities of succession") and popularly by John Lennox and Frank Turek:

Cumulative Case Argument

The modern apologetic strategy, set out by Basil Mitchell (1973) and given a Bayesian form by Richard Swinburne (The Existence of God, 2004):

Religious Apologetics

William Lane Craig, Frank Turek, John Lennox, Dinesh D'Souza, Thomas Aquinas, Alvin Plantinga, Richard Swinburne, Edward Feser