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EVIDENCE AND FALSIFICATION: CHALLENGES TO GREGORY PETERSON
Author(s) -
Jones Nicholaos
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
zygon®
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.222
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1467-9744
pISSN - 0591-2385
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9744.2008.00942.x
Subject(s) - metaphysics , praise , certainty , philosophy , theology , epistemology , absolute (philosophy) , natural theology , literature , art
. In this reply to Gregory Peterson's essay “Maintaining Respectability,” which itself is a response to my “Is Theology Respectable as Metaphysics?” I elaborate upon my claims that theology treats God's existence as an absolute certainty immune to refutation and that modern science constitutes the canons of respectable reasoning for metaphysical disciplines. I conclude with some comments on Peterson's “In Praise of Folly? Theology and the University.”