Richard Swinburne takes a stand in his introduction with a very strong subject for a good argument. One can assume by reading his starting sentence that he will not only form an argument about religion, but that he is a religious man himself and in being a religious man he will try to explain why he chose to believe in God. In the first part of his argument titled "The Nature of Religious Experience", he …showed first 75 words of 1565 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1565 total…to believe that there is a God because there is more probability that this is true. But without answering other questions like, who is god? And where is God? For many, God will only be another product of our mind. He ends his argument with a religious focus, "religious perceptual claims deserve to be taken as serious as perceptual claims of any other kind." (Philosophical thinkers 555) Bibliography Dr. Daniel D. Rieger. Philosophical Thinkers. Kendall/Hunt 1996.