Sophia

, Volume 47, Issue 2, pp 193–199 | Cite as

God and The Possibility of Random Creation

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Abstract

In this paper I discuss a number of problems associated with the suggestion that it is possible for God to randomly select a possible world for actualization.

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God Creation Howard-Snyders 
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Acknowledgements

I would like to thank Stephen Grover and an anonymous reviewer for comments on a draft of this paper. Thanks are also due to Ian Hacking for a helpful correspondence during the early stages of my thinking about this topic.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.Department of Philosophy105 Gregory Hall, MC-468UrbanaUSA

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