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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My goodness, man - as a fellow clavicle-snapper (both, actually), I find myself in awe that you were able to function at all with the severity of the fracture you've got there!
Of course, it's been almost 25 years since I broke mine, but do they still have you in the shoulder harness contraption?
[[looks again at the X-ray and shudders uncontrollably!]]
Do get well soon!
I experienced a car crash a couple of years ago. My only injury was from burns on the wrists (from the inflation of the collision bag), and a broken finger(Outer index phalange).
However, as it had an awkward angle for guitar-playing, I asked the doctor to adjust it before fixing the fracture. Not a wise request without anesthesia, I can tell. :-)
Hope you're getting better soon, enableing you to catch up with the risky hobbies :-)
Casssanders
You have me get well wishes. I admire how active you are in hiking and biking. A healthy mind on top of a healthy body ;-)