ABSTRACT
I introduce Part III with this discussion of the logic of naturalistic objections to theism because the possibilities of empirical argument still remain a bone of contention in philosophy of religion and philosophical theology. The naturalist, extending the logic of such empiricism as is successful in science, canonizes the verifiability principle and argues that one cannot move from man and nature to God. Curiously enough, he is joined in this conclusion by revelational, orthodox, neo-orthodox, and existential theologies – which maintain that any attempt to find the God of religion through the course of nature and history is bound to fail if unaided by religious experience. Thus much of the problem in philosophy of religion and philosophical theology centres around the method of argument and the criterion of truth.
