(July 17, 2012 at 10:40 am)Ryantology Wrote: The other major problem with a God of infinite greatness is that that old Problem of Evil. If greatness is a measure of being/doing good, as you appear to be saying, then clearly God is not infinitely great.
The old argument for evil has been debunked. But there is a stronger version of the argument, which I presented here, and to be honest, I don't know how to refute it. It seems logically valid and every premise seems true. But the truth of it is not decisive like a mathematical proof. It does appeal to our ignorance, and says since we don't know an explanation for x and y and z given a benevolent creator exists, then there is none. So it's not cold hard proof, but it does seem that each premise is true as far as we can see although it's unproven. The more we exhaust all possible explanations, the more it seems the problem of evil is unsolvable and a proof that God doesn't exist.
So if you deny God exists on this basis, I would say this gives a moral face to Strong Atheism.
