RE: Another hypothetical for theists.
March 23, 2018 at 11:10 am
(This post was last modified: March 23, 2018 at 11:14 am by Amarok.)
Quote:You are entitled to your opinion. IMO your certainty is unjustified and not a sound basis on which to make any theological pronouncements. Personally, I don't know as a logical certainty that a world without bloodshed can be attained without sacrificing other potentially greater goods of which I am not aware.Ah just repeating dear Alvin's" greater good "argument. Yeah because an unstated unsupported "greater good " is such a good escape hatch

Oh no it's really not

(March 23, 2018 at 10:02 am)Grandizer Wrote:But Grand the "greater unknown baseless unsupported good that theists pull out their assess to explain away why the universe looks ungodly" Essentially it's moral version of Banned design argument . And just as silly .(March 23, 2018 at 9:18 am)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: You are entitled to your opinion. IMO your certainty is unjustified and not a sound basis on which to make any theological pronouncements. Personally, I don't know as a logical certainty that a world without bloodshed can be attained without sacrificing other potentially greater goods of which I am not aware.
If you disagree with what I said, then there's something not right with your reasoning, because such a disagreement implies that the likelihood of a world without bloodshed is higher under naturalism than under theism. This is clearly not rational.
Note we're not talking logical certainties here, we're doing probabilities.
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