“[C.S.] Lewis insists that, because science confines its examination to the universe, it’s natural that science discovers nothing beyond it.” — David Bagget and Jerry Walls in their book, Good God.
Monday, June 25th, 2012
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June 25, 2012
Quote of the Day: C.S. Lewis on the limits and findings of science
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June 25, 2012
More on Stephen Law’s Evil God Challenge
Posted by Jason Dulle under Apologetics, Atheism, Moral Argument, Problem of Evil, Theism[13] Comments
While I have already written an assessment of Stephen Law’s evil god challenge, after listening to Law engage in an informal debate on the topic with Glenn Peoples on Unbelievable, I have a few more observations to make.
Law seems to take as his starting point the idea that people reject the existence of an evil God based on the empirical evidence: there is simply too much good in the world for an evil god to exist. Then he reasons that if the presence of good in the world makes the existence of an evil God absurd, people should also recognize that the presence of evil in the world makes the existence of a good God equally absurd. The success of his argument depends on three assumptions:
Thinking to Believe 