A prayer group in Washington DC is claiming the credit for the recent sharp drop in the US price of petrol. Go here.
On another blog, FideCogitActio, some theists of a "classical" stripe (that's to say, like Brian Davies, Edward Feser) are criticisng the Evil God Challenge (or I suppose, trying to show how it can be met, or sidestepped). The main post includes this: In book I, chapter 39 , Aquinas argues that “there cannot be evil in God” (in Deo non potest esse malum). Atheists like Law must face the fact that, if the words are to retain any sense, “God” simply cannot be “evil”. As my comments in the thread at Feser’s blog aimed to show, despite how much he mocks “the privation theory of evil,” Law himself cannot escape its logic: his entire argument requires that the world ought to appear less evil if it is to be taken as evidence of a good God. Even though he spurns the idea that evil is a privation of good, his account of an evil world is parasitic on a good ideal; this is no surprise, though, since all evil is parasitic on good ( SCG I, 11 ). Based on the conclusions of se...
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I think the whole thin is rather badly made - there is far too much repetition and very little in the way of analysis.
It looks rather as if the makers really struggled to find more than 30 minutes of (in their view) watchable TV in 3 weeks of filming despite carefully seeding the group with all the mainstay stereotypes beloved of "reality" TV.
We've had this and "Make me a Muslim". Any thoughts of doing a "Make me a neo-Platonist" or something a bit more challenging?
Like ending hunger? Disease? War?
They seem to have focused on a very selfish desire...
Why does this group think that we have to accept it from them? From any other group its sorcery and witchcraft.
What do you call soothsaying when Christians do it? Prophecy, apparently.
Many think God's intervention can revive the dying
Actually why don't they just go away into a quiet corner and pray for the end of atheism?
Every week, 1 group is proven right and given sufficient news coverage. The other remains silent. Continue weekly and we'll always have one claiming credit, unless price remains unchange.
Its the same with the weekly lottery winner..does it mean everyone will strike?
I commanded the sky to rain today and lo the rain has come. I am powerful indeed!!!.....of course I live in Ireland where it always rains. I'm not quite ready to command the sun to shine. I'm powerful, not stupid!
well as I see it doesn't matter. The prayer worked.
Actually I was suggesting that by going into the other room I couldn't here the caos as much. But I'm going to say that it was because of they prayer.