Joel Evans

Well in that case, I fail to see how your argument is one for atheism. If the Christian God took a second before he revealed himself to people (which ...

Dear ballarak, In your recent post, you made the following claim: So we have this all powerful being, which would mean that it would be able to do eve...

Dear Zuhair, In your recent post, you made the following claim: Monotheism pictures a sole wise good God who created a world in which evil is so preva...

Dear Maureen, In your recent post, you made the following claim: In other words, before Christianity came about, there may as well have been no Christ...

It can be both. But a world with pain might be better than a world without pain, however, it the pain is necessary for some other good thing. For inst...

So pain is bad because pain is bad (foundationally). Makes sense, though I did offer an explanation of pain where is pain is not foundationally bad (w...

Why is a universe without the capacity for pain fundamentally better than one with the capacity for pain?

And yet my question still stands of why he would need to create a universe without the capacity for pain. What is wrong with pain when it serves its n...

They are not overcoming pain, rather it is serving its natural function in their bodies. If I smell something disgusting, that is unpleasant, but it's...

Because that pain serves a good purpose and isn't inherently bad.

This doesn't apply here but good try. I still think my analysis applies, but let's say it doesn't. That still doesn't show that the conditions for pai...

Actually it's not. There is a difference between causing pain and giving one the capacity for pain. God (according to theism) gave us noses but that d...

But God didn't create the conditions of pain. He merely gave us the capacity to feel pain. That's besides the point though. You and I have been talkin...

But God didn't create the conditions of pain. He merely gave us the capacity to feel pain. That's besides the point though. You and I have been talkin...

I don't think that pain on its own is a negative experience in a way that affects the good-making qualities of God. Having a fully functioning nervous...

I am not entirely sure why he would need to create a world without pain. In a perfect world, organisms are designed to do certain things (eat certain ...

Dear TheMadFool, In your recent post you made the following claim: Such a view jibes with the standard notion of god as an omniscient being. The scien...

Dear Matthew724, In your recent post, you made the following claim: If you were to ask somebody, before Darwin, whether certain facts like animals suf...

Dear Gregory, In your recent post, you made the following claim: So the first premise in this discussion is that animals are innocent. They are not ca...

Thank you for pointing that out. It was bugging me.

Dear BBQueue, In your post, you made the following claim: I have an almost indisputable explanation regarding God and how He (or rather the idea of Hi...

Fair enough, thanks for the heads up.

That's one way to solve the problem.

This scenario doesn't really affect the points I have been making. If the alien life you are hypothesizing about is sentient (capable of complex emoti...

I'm willing to learn. What do you mean by pillars? No, I'm saying human beings (specifically) are equal to each other and of more value than other lif...

This doesn't follow at all. Even if equality isn't the main pillar of morality that doesn't mean it should be possible for morality to exist without e...

I definitely agree that equal is a main pillar of morality, but there it doesn't seem like it is the main pillar of morality. Also, I refer back to my...

Dear TheMadFool, In your post, you made the following claim: Firstly, it is to be taken as true that an omnibenevolent god will not play favorites wit...