RE: God can make infinitely more special/valuable things than this universe
November 25, 2018 at 7:25 am
(This post was last modified: November 25, 2018 at 7:26 am by GrandizerII.)
(November 24, 2018 at 8:54 am)Belaqua Wrote: Maybe I'm not understanding you. Let me put it another way.
Do you find this syllogism sound?
~ If there were a good God, X, Y, and Z would happen.
~ X, Y, and Z don't happen.
~ Therefore, there isn't a good God.
We could still make a reasonable moral judgement based on our intuitions and experiences whether something is likely to be created/allowed by a good God or not. For example, most suffering is not what we intuit to be good, and our experiences tell us that it's not good. Even less so when this suffering is perceived by us to be gratuitous (unwarranted given a good God), such as rape and torture.
We need not be omniscient in order to conduct a proper Bayesian analysis of the situation under debate. We just need to be reasonable and intellectually honest, even if we could still be mistaken ultimately.
