(June 3, 2024 at 12:28 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I don't think there's any reason to disagree over things I agree with. The state and product of evolutionary processes is a compelling reason to apply skepticism to human intuition, imo. I like to take common ground where I can find it, lol.
I don't personally think that the various arguments from evil are valid. It doesn't follow that because a thing is evil it does not exist any more than it follows that because a thing is difficult to accomplish or rare it does not exist.
Not sure if you are saying that I am trying to disagree with you, if so then sorry about that - poor communication on my part as I am definitely not. I agree with you that evolutionary processes are a good reason to apply skepticism.
I am also not convinced on the arguments from evil, but likely because I still have plantingas argument in mind and haven’t read further than that. I know there are counters that are available in the literature - just not gotten around to it. I guess the point I was trying to make is that someone could reason as though they are in a universe with a designer and consider what it would be like if there were none. In that case they wouldn’t be conceding a point but would simply accept it for that one argument?
