The Argument From Evil (part 1/6)

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A Table of Contents is below. To watch the entire presentation in one video (55 minutes), go to http://vimeo.com/11917095

DEFINITIONS

(E1) Lightning strikes a tree in a forest, causing a forest fire. A fawn is caught in this fire, and suffers intense agony for an extended period of time before finally dying.
(E2) A five year old girl is, by her mother's boyfriend, severely beaten, raped and strangled to death.

THE ARGUMENT STATED

(P) No good state of affairs that we know of is such that God, by bringing it about, is morally justified in permitting E1 and E2. Therefore,
(Q) No good state of affairs is such that God, by bringing it about, is morally justified in permitting E1 and E2. Therefore,
(R) God does not exist.




TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART 1/6 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt8UHUqGL4M
0:00 Introduction
1:22 Presentation and Initial Defense
7:45 The Moore Shift

PART 2/6 www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWJKCdkk6sY
0:00 Introduction to Defending P
1:35 The Free Will Response

PART 3/6 www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJEBqPIaEA0
0:00 The Soul Making Response
5:12 The Afterlife Response

PART 4/6 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RCNWBZZEBM
0:00 Interlude
0:34 The Punishment Response
2:27 The Natural Laws Response
5:05 The Contrast Response
6:26 The Best of All Possible Worlds Response
7:09 The Finite God Response

PART 5/6 www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8icEtK7ATk
0:00 The Skeptical Theist Response

PART 6/6 www.youtube.com/watch?v=trzpjjCxTuw
0:00 In Defense of RNA (Skeptical Theism cont'd)
4:35 Conclusion: Reichenbach's Challenge
7:12 Sources

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  • You've already failed. Without God there is no moral obligation or physical evil. Try again.

  • @ACallToHoliness Addressed in parts 4 and 6.

  • You fail in presuming to know what God Almighty can attain to and what He cannot attain to by the methods He uses to attain to the Agenda He has not nor does He intend to reveal to you so you can sit in judgment on Him, while He continues to sit in judgment on You his creature to determine whether you any redeeming value for his mysterious purposes.

  • @MegaSage007 Skeptical theist response, refuted in parts 5 and 6.

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  • You are incredibly boring

  • @DavidJohnWellman Thanks for making a series of videos explaining William Rowe's evidential problem of evil. There ought to be more atheist youtubers like you. :)

  • @ACallToHoliness LOL Looks like you're the one that fails. Try watching the entire series BEFORE even attempting a pathetic "critique".

  • @MacabreManifesto ...is a God who knows how to make the perfect human in the perfect environment, and can do it, but doesn't do it, then he is evil. And however God starts out the world, in order for it to go through the way that it did until present day could not give us free will, but the illusion of it, since he already knew exactly how the events would play out when he created the universe.

  • Free Will cannot exist if God exists. Every single one of our actions, thoughts, and emotions happen only because of a specific combination of things within our nature and nurture. Obviously there is nothing to blame in a world where our most advanced nurture has limited effect on nature, and where we can never be sure how to make the perfect human in the perfect environment, let alone have enough resources to give that to everyone and thus can only partially blame our nurturers. But if there...

  • i'm an atheist but you're wrong about induction. Any proposition about the state of affairs in the world (or universe) is possible as long as it isn't a logical contradiction.

    Check out the Tractatus by Ludwig Wittgenstein if you haven't already read it. It's public domain and free on gutenberg (dot) org

  • @MegaSage007 Free will response, refuted in part 2 at 1:35.

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