Mon 10 Aug, 2009 07:50 pm - Rich, we aren't suffering from a poverty of examples when it comes to pointless pain and suffering. We have congenital complications, chronic diseases, debilitating illnesses, genetic... (view)
Mon 10 Aug, 2009 01:48 am - [QUOTE=Alan McDougall;82248]Those like you, respectfully, must also offer up real indicators that no such agent as a god or ID exists[/QUOTE]
I needn't do any such thing. The evidential... (view)
Mon 10 Aug, 2009 12:47 am - William Rowe's (paraphrased) [I]Evidential Argument from Evil[/I]:
1. God is perfectly morally good (assumed).
2. Natural evils (events not caused by the deliberate actions of moral agents)... (view)
Sun 9 Aug, 2009 10:32 pm - [B]Joe:[/B]
I don't think it's a radical misstep on our part to hold God to the same moral standards we ourselves hold, and uphold, amongst ourselves. After all, some people claim that... (view)
Sat 11 Jul, 2009 05:48 pm - [B]Deepthot:[/B]
If you aren't defending the claim that the traditional monotheistic God--who is all-powerful, all-knowing, and perfectly morally good--is consistent with the existence of... (view)
Fri 10 Jul, 2009 06:08 pm - [QUOTE]Excellent answer, i emailed it to my old philosophy tutor, she questioned her religion after my previous essay which i kinda feel bad about, i was referring to the biblical entity but this... (view)
Tue 7 Jul, 2009 02:09 am - Well of course my conclusion doesn't follow if my argument addresses your conception of God, but it doesn't. The OP had in the mind the attributes of a biblical Abrahamic deity, who [I]is... (view)
Mon 6 Jul, 2009 04:59 pm - [B]ImnotRussian:[/B]
I don't think that the classical monotheistic conception of God--as an omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly morally good being--is compatible with a world in which... (view)
Sun 10 May, 2009 11:24 pm - [quote]
I guess I've written enough. The main point of all this is to show that we need to treat consciousness as a biological problem, as Koch woud say, because otherwise we are left with... (view)
