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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Have you read David Grinspoon's "Lonely Planets: The Natural Philosophy Of Alien Life"? Grinspoon is a serious astrophysicist - he's the world's leading expert on the planet Venus - so he's not a loony.
Grinspoon is based in the US, unfortunately.
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Good choices would be Philip Mantle, Gary Heseltine, Timothy Good, but my personal first choice would probably be....
Robert Rosamond
The link will take you to an article he wrote a ways back.
Pope is overdone right now. He even has started sounding bored with himself...and the questions posed to him.
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Alternatively, in Australia there is Professor Ross Taylor who was the geochemist to first analyze the moon rocks of the Apollo missions. He has a book called Destiny or Chance which argues the difficulty of making Earth like Planets and thus extra terrestrial life! Great for background research and if you can get him Ross’s friend, Harrison (Jack) Schmidt the last Apollo astronaut and the first geologist on the moon.
Revelations "Afforded complete access to one Alpha course, at St Aldate's Church in Oxford, [...] documents the whole process over its eight weeks."
http://www.drdavidclarke.co.uk/
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http://drdavidclarke.blogspot.com/