God in the Age of Science?
God in the Age of Science? A Critique of Religious Reason is a 2012 book by the Dutch philosopher Herman Philipse, written in English and published in the United Kingdom. Philipse found his "Atheist Manifesto" (1995) to be too hastily and superficially written, and decided to set up a more complete work to systematically refute all the arguments for the existence of God and adherence to any form of theism. To gain insight in how a religious person substantiates the existence of God, Philipse presents a "religious decision tree" that leads to four categories  of theists. He starts by asking: Is the statement "God exists" a factual truth claim? Next, Philipse tries to refute arguments from every category step by step, but especially from the last case, namely Bayes' theorem as used by Swinburne. Based on his critiques of the last two cases ("God is supernatural" and "God's existence is within reach of natural theology") he concludes that: