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 still say Brian Wilson is God though. Have you seen the bit from that tour documentary where Neil Young's trying to learn the organ part to 'Good Vibrations' in time for a show?
http://www.celebritytweet.com/PerezHilton/link/2409044111/
What was interesting about McCartney's appearance with Young, I thought, was how awkward Macca looked. Like someone's embarrassing Dad ambled on to stage for an arm waving sing-along. He obviously needs a bass or other prop to feel comfortable.
Yeah, poor old Macca - doesn't know what to do with himself does he? But he's in a no-win situation really without an instrument to play - he can't just sit there like a lemon while Neil rocks out, but nor can he do anything to take the audience's attention away from the star attraction. They should have given him a stylophone, or maybe a little flag to wave. Or he could have gone crowd-surfing I suppose.
I'm just saying.