(August 7, 2013 at 8:28 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: I'd like to see my objection that a Platinga-style argument could just as easily be used to 'establish' the existence of a maximally evil being. The logic is exactly the same, you just flip all the moral statements. If you object to that, you are by definition special pleading.
No matter how great a fictional character might be in a fictional narrative, a fictional character is all he ever is.
Maximal greatness might not, in fact, require omnipotence, omniscience, or omnipresence. The maximum for greatness might be rather less than that.
Before we decide whether a perfect character exists for reason that non-existence would be an impermissible flaw in his perfection, we should discover whether perfection, itself, is even a possibility. It might not be.
