THE NON -EXISTENCE OF GOD
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loginWhen I was a philosophy student, I once told my tutor that I would like towrite an essay on the existence of God. ‘My interest in my maker ceasedwhen I read Hume’s Dialogues’, he loftily replied, leaving me in no doubtthat my interest should be similarly short-lived. I never wrote the essay, butnor, in spite of reading Hume’s Dialogues, did I lose the interest. Since thosedistant days, the philosophy of religion has enjoyed a remarkable renais-sance. In those bad old days, with a few honourable exceptions, it wasdominated by the woolly pieties and crass objections of third-rate thinkers.Since then, the field has been taken over by imaginative, creative thinkerswho are themselves cutting-edge contributors in other areas of philosophy.These philosophers have brought with them an array of the sharpest weaponsin the armoury of analytic philosophy. This combination of able thinkers andsophisticated techniques has transformed the field in the last few decades.
