Archive for April 30th, 2008
Why Doesn’t Everybody Believe?
Asks Theodore M. Drange in constructing his “argument from nonbelief.” (The Improbability of God, 341) My answer to that is that we are saved by Christ not by Christianity. It is OK if you do not know. But it is ironic that Drange, who presumably knows enough about Christianity to work with its doctrines, himself [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2008 under Philosophy, Religion.
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Re: An Argument from Non-Gratuitous Evil
Thomas Metcalf commits an elementary blunder. He assumes that all evil is justified, “grants to the defender of theism that gratuitous evil does not exist,” (The Improbability of God, 329) and argues that “the position according to which there is no gratuitous evil will lead to a new argument from evil, a strong evidential argument [...]
Posted: April 30th, 2008 under Philosophy, Religion.
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