When walking into Theodicy one best wear high boots. What is
our objective?
Consider Plantinga's Free Will Defense. This, as Plantinga confesses,
will never comfort a living soul, even if it is a defeater for the
problem of evil.
bill powers
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, gordon brown wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009, Dehler, Bernie wrote:
>
>> I think the obvious answer is that God does not literally "knit us
>> together" in our mother's womb, because if He did, it meant He was making
>> retarded and other such (junk) babies. Yes- junk, because some of it is
>> not viable and dies in the womb or shortly thereafter.
>>
>>
>>
>> Instead, God invented the evolutionary process to create physical beings-
>> which is brilliant because there's no better way of doing it (other than
>> creation by fiat which would create an unrealistic world, because no one
>> would be able to trust their senses if things were made by fiat).
>>
>>
>>
>> ...Bernie
>>
>
> I don't think this solves the problem of evil. I think you are saying that
> God evaded responsibility for some evils by having the brilliant idea of
> instituting something with a role somewhat resembling that of the Gnostic
> concept of a demiurge. However God knows the results of both his direct and
> indirect actions.
>
> We should rather ask how one should determine what is good.
>
> Gordon Brown (ASA member)
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