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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Hope you got to the radio show on time.
I will be sort of live blogging from this event if anyone who is interested cannot make it. I will certainly create 4 summaries of each talk and post a few minutes after each talk. I am investigating more real live blogging tools and might try them tomorrow too.
See No Double Standards (tomorrow)
PS I am guessing Stephen won't mind me promoting this here as he is helping arrange for me to do the live blog.
Great event and a good talk by you. Here is a list of reviews of Weird Science.
Martin