Oarsmen at Oxford University had their minds on "Eights Week," and most undergraduates were sweating out their finals. But neither these distractions nor the fine spring weather last week could damp down the philosophical war that has been raging between Oxford's logical positivists and Oxford's believers.
Logical positivism (a close relative of U.S. Philosopher John Dewey's pragmatism) erects its system of thought on the premise that no statement (except in logic and mathematics) may be considered meaningful if it is not potentially verifiable by evidence of the senses. The idea of God is...