Is it a religious belief that "God exists"?

Norman Malcolm

pp. 103-111

in: John Hick (ed), Faith and the philosophers, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 1964

Abstract

Iadmire the strategic plan of Alston's paper, and also the skill and thoroughness of his execution. I think his main results are entirely sound. I agree with his conclusion that even if it is a fact that "reason-irrelevant" factors are sufficient to produce a belief in God's existence, this could have little or no tendency to show that the belief is false, or probably false, or unworthy of serious acceptance.