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W7 - B2 - CHAPTER 3 ARGUMENT FOR DESIGN - MODERN VERSIONS - PROBLEM OF…
W7 - B2 - CHAPTER 3
ARGUMENT FOR DESIGN - MODERN VERSIONS - PROBLEM OF EVIL
Timothy Chappell
3.4-THIRD VERSION :
FINE-TUNING ARGUMENT
Richard Swinburne
THE GOLDILOCKS
PRINCIPLE
TO GET A UNIVERSE GOING, CONDITIONS
HAVE TO BE JUST RIGHT - NOT TOO MUCH,
NOT TOO LITTLE, p.102
EVALUATION OF
MEYER'S & SWINBURN'S
ARGUMENTS
OBJECTIONS
WHY WOULD IT BE GOD?
THE PARACHUTE FACTORY
PRINCIPLE - ITS NOT THAT HUMANS ADAPTED BECAUSE GOD IS KIND - JUST THAT THOSE WHO WERENT ADAPTED FAILED TO SURVIVE, p.105
SAME WITH CREATION OF
THE UNIVERSE? "FAILED
ATTEMPTS"?, p.106
VALUED RESULT = WHAT
ABOUT WHAT IS BAD IN IT?
ISNT WORLD BAD IN ITSELF? p.106
3.5- THE PROBLEM
OF EVIL
GOD PERFECTLY GOOD
AND PERFECTLY
OMNIPOTENT = PROBLEM
EPICURUS RIDDLE
PREMISE 1
IF GOD PERFECTLY
POWERFUL, CAN MAKE HAPPEN
WHAT HE WANTS
PREMISE 2
IF GOD PERFECTLY GOOD,
ONLY WANT BEST
SUBC 1
SO IF EVENTS NOT BEST,
EITHER GOD NOT POWERFUL,
OR NOT GOOD
PREMISE 3
BUT THERE ARE
EVENTS THAT ARE NOT BEST
SUBC 2
SO EITHER GOD NOT POWERFUL,
OR NOT GOOD, OR BOTH
PREMISE 4
BUT A GOD NOT POWERFUL,
OR GOOD = NOT GOD
CONCLUSION
GOD DOES NOT EXIST
EVALUATION OF
EPICURUS'S ARGUMENT
PREMISE 1
SOME TRUTH DO NOT
SEEM ALTERABLE, EVEN
BY GOD (mathematical truths)
SO MAYBE EVIL IS SUCH
A NECESSAY TRUTH?, p.112
PREMISE 2
MAYBE THERE ISNT
BEST POSSIBLE EVENTS
JUST GOOD ONES
OR EVEN IF THERE IS,
DOESNT MEAN GOD NEEDS THAT
TO BE GOOD, p.113
SUBC 1
MAYBE GOD IS POWERFUL
AND GOOD, BUT GAVE HUMANS
FREE WILL / FREE CHOICE,
AND ONLY SOMETIMES
INTERVENE, p.113
=
FREE WILL
DEFENCE
BUT, SOME BAD EVENTS
CANNOT BE FROM FREE WILL
(certain natural catastrophes)
IS FREE WILL WORTH
ALL THE BAD THINGS?
WHY CAN WE HAVE FREE WILL
AND
ONLY CHOOSE GOOD?
UNLESS THET WOULD NOT BE FREE WILL
PREMISE 3
THE BEST POSSIBLE WAY
MAY INCLUDE EVIL (Leibniz), p.114
SUBC 2
IF SUBC 1 & P3 ACCEPTED,
THEN NEED ACCEPT THIS, p.114
PREMISE 4
MANY THEISTS MAY
REJECT GOD BEING PERFECTLY
GOOD - GOD IS INSCRUTABLE
SOME THEISTS ALSO SAY GOD PERFECTLY POWERFUL ONLY MEANS GOD AND GOODNESS WILL WIN AT THE END, p.115
=
FUTURE-
HOPE DEFENCE
REASONABLE
HOPE OR NOT?
REASONABLE IF
EXPERIENCE OF GOD...?
