Christocentric Philosophy

This is an excerpt from a project I’m currently working on. I thought I’d post it here.

It has been something of a recent trend in contemporary philosophy of religion to appeal to considerations of theoretical virtue and Bayesian probability theory in order to adjudicate between competing worldviews. This move has been championed mostly by Graham Oppy, considered by many to be the best defender of atheism alive, however many more atheist and theist philosophers have adopted this approach. What I aim to show in this brief article is that the method proposed by thinkers such as Oppy is far from a neutral method, and is insufficient to settle the dispute between competing worldviews.  This method treats Theism and Naturalism as theories or hypotheses and aims to figure out whether there are any reasons to prefer one over the other. In his book, The Best Argument Against God, Oppy provides a number of theoretical virtues that would serve as the criteria for the comparison of the two views. The first is simplicity, which he characterizes this way: (a) Simplicity: If everyt...