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What Does The Cognitive Science of Religion Have To Teach Us About The Probability of Theism: The Genetic Fallacy Part II (An Argument by Keith Parsons)

12/19/2012

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ARGUMENT:
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RESPONSE TO PREMISE 2 of PARSONS' ARGUMENT:
Premise 2 ignores contextualism in epistemology in two important respects:
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http://www.academia.edu/4059750/The_Problem_of_Contingency_for_Religious_Belief

FIVE ARTICLES THAT CONTAIN THE MATERIAL TO UNDERCUT THIS ARGUMENT:
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connection_building_theodicy.pdf
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Irenaeus' theodicy (as appealed to the above: decrae.1.pdf) is indeed a promising reply to this objection, but, to my knowledge, nobody has tried to flesh it out (a daunting task that would have to cover all of human history!).  However, there are 6 Books that I recently found that I think could be put together to go a long long long way (enough to make it a very plausible theodicy) towards this very goal (though not the explicit intention of the authors).  Here they are:

http://www.amazon.com/Name-God-Evolutionary-Religious-CourseSmart/dp/1405183810/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357334782&sr=1-1&keywords=in+the+name+of+god+teehan

http://www.amazon.com/Supernatural-Selection-How-Religion-Evolved/dp/0195385810/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_y

http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Through-Centuries-History-Culture/dp/0300079877/ref=sr_1_sc_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357334859&sr=1-6-spell&keywords=jarsolav+pelikan

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1845532953/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00

http://www.amazon.com/Religion-Human-Evolution-Paleolithic-Axial/dp/0674061438/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357334921&sr=1-1&keywords=robert+bellah

http://www.amazon.com/Interpretation-Religion-Responses-Transcendent-Second/dp/0300106688/ref=sr_1_6?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1357335002&sr=1-6&keywords=john+hick

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