(September 23, 2014 at 2:23 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Do you have any proof that a perfect world is possible while still maintaining human free agency? Without that, the objection from evil drops away.
You're the one asserting the best of all possible worlds as a counter to the PoE, thus, you're asserting that the BoaPW is true. You need to prove this is actually the case. It's entirely possible that God exists and he has chosen to not make the optimal decisions. You have asserted that he has. Please prove this assertion.
(September 23, 2014 at 2:23 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: My view allows for the possibility that the physical universe could indeed be eternal. However, anyone can see that the physical universe sits within a larger reality that also includes non-physical features like subjective experience and meaning.
That is true that perhaps our observable universe is just the tip of the iceberg or some larger, unobservable, eternal universe. Note that this both solves the cosmological argument and does not invoke a god in doing so. Thus, the cosmological argument cannot be used to assert God; God is merely a single, convenient answer to it.
