Post script to previous "The Jesus light" post. The line "Can you see what it is yet?" was a little joke with myself re. the great Rolf Harris. Then I found this.
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 am reposting this comment so that it doesn't get buried beneath the interest your previous post generated:
Stephen,
You asked for some book suggestions, so I thought I would offer some. There is a good book by Terence Hines, Pseudoscience and the Paranormal, in which he discusses different paranormal claims and why people believe them. Schick and Vaughn have a good book, How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, which introduces critical thinking by sifting through different confusions about things like UFO's.
Hope that helps!