Tuesday, December 4, 2012
Poor Cook
Cook and van Inwagen lose their rebuttal. The credit for that specious argument goes to Alvin Plantinga who uses the greater good and the unknown reason arguments, but, alas, he is relying on the argument from ignorance, which with the one from personal incredulity underlie most theistic arguments.
Here theists credulously feel that why, how could only Nature exist but not a counterweight to overcoming evil, and they use the argument from ignorance to plead for God's existence. They fail to discern that evil would arise naturally, because of imperfections, not from some literal or metaphorical Fall.
Michael Ruse, atheist, is trying to help theists here by claiming that that they can explain the metaphorical Fall, using science. He is misleading them. Never were we perfect, so no kind of Fall happened. Ti's a betrayal of science to accommodate theism.
Van Inwagen claims that fideism, not the God of rational/natural theology- the one hypothesized- that rings true. Plantinga bellows that why, God is a basic like other minds and the external world. Both men err, because faith begs the question and is just another argument from ignorance!
To further absolve God of criminality, Plantinga claims that omni-God makes flourishes- the imperfections and thus evils, whilst limited God has to make a perfect world!
He further blames evils on Satan, but why, that further shows God's criminality for letting Satan act.
The other nine arguments will also fail.
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