RE: Dr. Craig is a liar.
April 9, 2016 at 10:16 am
(This post was last modified: April 9, 2016 at 10:18 am by Jehanne.)
(April 9, 2016 at 3:43 am)udhammam Wrote:(April 4, 2016 at 9:42 pm)Jehanne Wrote: He has stated in several of his debates that the "Argument of Evil" is a "dead argument," abandoned by "philosophers everywhere." I used to believe his shit; no more:...Ok.
http://www.closertotruth.com/series/does...sprove-god
You're find several distinguished philosophers in the above list (such as Tooley & Smith) who explicitly invoke the argument of evil against the existence of god.
Don't believe Criag; he is a conscious liar.
Here's his lie:
Quote:In summary, the atheist who champions the logical version of the problem of evil, bears the burden of proof to show that there is no possible world in which “A” and “B” are true. That is an enormously heavy burden which has proved to be unsustainable. After centuries of discussion, contemporary philosophers including, uh, virtually all atheists and agnostics have come to admit that the logical problem of evil has been solved. In the words of the prominent philosopher William Alsten, “It is now acknowledged, on almost all sides, that the logical argument from evil is bankrupt”.
And, AC Grayling's response:
Quote:Professor Craig says that there are three shortcomings to the probabilistic version of the argument from evil. And, by the way, I should just mention that, er, Professor Craig says that the “current authorities” in the field say that “nobody now takes the Logical Problem of Evil seriously”. Well, long before that happened, people had stopped taking seriously the Argument from Authority, which is - as you know - a logical fallacy. So the fact that people - that the theologians - are not taking arguments seriously, doesn’t seem to me a refutation of it.
http://www.reasonablefaith.org/belief-in...ing-debate
This is Craig at his "lying best"; I have heard several atheistic philosophers feature the Argument from Evil as being a refutation of the existence of a theistic god, even "logically" so. I would encourage you to listen to Craig's debate with Stephen Law:
http://www.reasonablefaith.org/does-god-...law-debate
Professor Law makes the excellent point that the existence of evil can support the notion of an "evil deity" as much as a "good deity." Craig loves to twist things, building straw-man upon straw-man.