Atheists’ Challenge to Cosmological Arguments

European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 7 (1):165--180 (2015)
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In this paper I intend to identify some points of disagreement between theism and atheism. I will try to point out three epistemological clashes occurring in the controversial treatment of cosmological arguments. I am not assessing the arguments pro and contra, which have been thoroughly studied and discussed, but just trying to understand the misunderstanding.

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