Evidence and Religious Belief
by Kelly James Clark (Editor) , Raymond J. VanArragon (Editor)
with the url to Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Evidence-Religiou ... 0199603715.
In considering it, one should care for some details first:
A science part involving theory/hypothesis with a data-set has indeed evidence credentials.
However, the metaphysics part can't have such other than some other well-known trait: the appeal to credibility, the appeal to our belief in something.
To take an example: when Van Lommel sets out to make the investigations of surviving clinical death, he obtains a certain data-set from the existing data-bases in combination with more personal presence to the data-set, possibly. He comes to a conclusion that also holds the virtue of "evidence".
This can be used, Van Lommel thinks, by this, Confirmed Van Lommel studies (with evidence), combining theory and data-set entailing "More credible God!
By Modus Ponens then, Conditional Elimination, "More credible God" obtains as conclusion. This gets a quality, after evidence under the theory, of logical soundness and appeal by credibility.
So this is what I want to point out with this book, evidence to us can is on the safe side a theory/hypothesis that has a data-set to it that, by both of these, have evidence to it that pulls God closer to us.
Good reading! Cheers!
