(March 26, 2015 at 9:35 am)professor Wrote: Alex, we (as screwed up as we are) ...
That is a problem though. If God were perfect, he would not create imperfect things. (Not to mention, that he would not create anything at all, as he would have no need of it, and no desire for it, as that would mean that he lacked some good in himself that would be desired, and consequently would not be perfect.)
The idea that a perfect being would create people is ludicrous. If he is omniscient, he would have known in advance how it would go, and so that would mean that he actually wanted the mess that is the world. No being that isn't psychotic would want the world as it is.
"A wise man ... proportions his belief to the evidence."
— David Hume, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, Section X, Part I.
