Excerpt From Russell's Why I Am Not A Christian
Russell's conclusion is "…and therefore you do not get any advantage by introducing God as an intermediary." ‘God as an intermediary' in this excerpt implies ‘God having a reason'. This attachment of meaning occurs in 2, below.
Russell asks the question, "Why did God issue just those natural laws and no others?" Two answers appear: A. ‘God had no reason.' and B. ‘God had a reason.' He dismisses answer A quickly: if there was no reason, then there are no ‘laws' and the opening question is not valid. His argument for answer B follows: 1. God had a reason for giving natural laws (to make the best universe); 2. if there was a reason for God-given law, then God was subject to law; 3. therefore no advantage by introducing God as an intermediary. As the premises do not guarantee the truth of the conclusion, this is an inductive argument.
A needed background supposition is the belief that a being that has reason gets that reason from a higher-level being, hence its......
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