ABSTRACT

Some arguments for the existence of God appeal to facts about morality. Most commonly, proponents of such arguments claim that God is necessary to account for the existence of moral facts. Less commonly, some arguments focus on our knowledge of morality. This chapter presents two arguments of this less common sort. The first argument aims to establish a link from non-theism to moral skepticism. The second argument seeks to show that theism provides a better explanation of the surprising correlation between our moral beliefs and the moral facts.

Crummett and Swenson seek to show that both arguments can have at least some persuasive force and that the second argument in particular is quite strong.