It is the problematic character of this step which makes the ontological
argument unsatisfactory as a proof of God's existence
although in the case of Hartshorne himself it was perhaps taken, implicitly if not explicitly, when, as he tells us, «about the age of seventeen, after reading Emerson's
Essays, I made up my mind (doubtless with a somewhat hazy notion of what I was doing) to trust reason to the end» (LP viii).
I do not find Russell E. Saltzman's
essay «Two Boats, a Helicopter, and Stem Cells» (October 1999) entirely satisfying,
although I have absolutely no quarrel with the
argument developed for his own decision to oppose the use of aborted fetuses for stem cell research.