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'm a jazz guitarist moving to the ivories and hoping shortly to start some local gigs in High Wycombe.
Also, know of any good semi pro/amateur jazz bassists
in the wycombe area ?
I don't know anyone in Wycombe area that's even a musician, but I am sure they exist....
Not every conspiracy theory is bullshit, but to the extent that the theory depends on mechanisms in the book to generate the appearance of "reasonableness", yes they are IBHs.