RE: The Watchmaker: my fav argument
March 9, 2021 at 9:42 am
(This post was last modified: March 9, 2021 at 9:42 am by R00tKiT.)
(March 9, 2021 at 9:33 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: You may not be able to say as much, but I can, with no need for omniscience. If I murder you and then give you a lollipop, that doesn't change the fact that I murdered you.
I am fine with being given a lollipop for eternity whereas the murderer rots in hell for the same amount of time......
You?
(March 9, 2021 at 9:33 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: It's pointless to complain about your inability to handle the problem of evil with me, as, between us, there isn't one.
I don't have to "handle" the problem of evil with you. Professional philosophers did and resolved it quite convincingly.
(March 9, 2021 at 9:33 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: You've proposed an evil and incompetent god, and in that context, evil is not a problem at all. At least not for that evil and incompetent gods existence. It would be rather the opposite. Positing an evil and incompetent designer and then pointing to the evil and incompetent designs in nature is a fit.
I am not sure what your definition of competence is, can you elaborate ? It's true that evil is not a problem for an evil god. But you're kind of begging the question, you have to first prove that it is evil, that is, that no good can ever come out of it. Also, you should take free will into account.