Interview with Szatkowski", Quo Vadis, Metaphysics? Essays in Honor of Peter van Inwagen (Szatkowski, ed.): 11-32. A Kind of Darwinism", " Darwinism and Design", " Science and Scripture", Science and Religion in Dialogue, Vol. 2 (Stewart, ed.). The third edition includes an entirely new chapter on ontology 1. The new chapter presents a theory of the nature of being and proceeds to apply this theory to two problems of ontology:

Indeterminacy and Vagueness: Logic and Metaphysics", European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 1: 1-19. Van Inwagen lives in Granger, Indiana, with his wife Elisabeth. Van Inwagen converted to Christianity in 1980. [ citation needed] See also [ edit ] If we can’t show that a necessarily-existent individual thing is possible, we certainly can’t show that a perfect being is possible, as this has further properties that might or might not be incompatible. This mystery remains, according to Antony, even once van Inwagen's attempted defense of theism is complete. So EAE is a success.For instance, particle physics is very much open to experimentation, while cosmology is only open to investigation and model-building. The Possibility of Resurrection and Other Essays in Christian Apologetics. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. 1998. ISBN 978-0-8133-2731-0. Since the only thing that changes from one possible world to another is which possible world is actual, it is true in every possible world that that necessarily-existent individual exists in all possible worlds. Footnote 1: Presumably the quotation is from the Third Meditation, as the Fifth refers to Pythagoras’ Theorem. The bottom line is that a rebellious student of metaphysics – as distinct from a student of the “history of ideas 13 ” (or physics, say) – isn’t simply wrong when he disagrees with the experts as there is no established body of facts to be wrong about.

Opening Statement: What Difference Would (or Does) God's Existence Make?" (from debate at University of Toronto) Draper, P. (1997/2008). 'Evolution and the Problem of Evil'. In L. Pojman and M. Rea (eds.), Philosophy of Religion: An Anthology. Wadsworth Press. A3: Human beings were created by God with the function to love and serve him forever, though they have free choice whether they fulfil it. Human history reflects this failure of function.A1: The World consists of matter – all that exists – in motion according to invariable laws of physics.