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Darkantics video: What a Tangled Web We Weave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P92yGnKXVvg
One of the dancers in the video:
http://www.youtube.com/musicdancelife
This video discusses the logical problem of evil, the free will defense, and the theories centered around free will and heaven.
After making this video I went to William Lane Craigs website and searched for his writing on the problem of evil. It became even more apparent that he is not only aware that the logical problem of evil includes characteristics of omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence, but that those do not constitute the hidden premise he mentioned, and in this particular article Craig gives two examples of what those hidden premises might be. In fact, acknowledging explicitly acknowledging the premises of omnipotence and omnibenevolence doesn't seem to change his argument at all.
Here is the relevant section:
"So, according to the logical version of the problem of evil, (the two statements on your hand-out):
"(A) an omnipotent, omnibenevolent God exists"
and,
"(B) evil exists"
...are logically incompatible.
The difficulty for the atheist, however, is that statements (A) and (B) are not, at face value, logically inconsistent. There's no explicit contradiction between them. If the atheist thinks they are implicitly contradictory then he must be som - uh - assuming some hidden premises that would serve to bring out the contradiction and make it explicit.
But, what are those premises? Well, the atheist seems to be assuming two things:
"(1) If God is omnipotent then he can create any world that he desires"
and
"(2) If God is omnibenevolent then he prefers a world without evil over a world with evil""
Source:
http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9031
Darkantics video: What a Tangled Web We Weave
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P92yGnKXVvg
One of the dancers in the video:
http://www.youtube.com/musicdancelife
This video discusses the logical problem of evil, the free will defense, and the theories centered around free will and heaven.
After making this video I went to William Lane Craigs website and searched for his writing on the problem of evil. It became even more apparent that he is not only aware that the logical problem of evil includes characteristics of omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence, but that those do not constitute the hidden premise he mentioned, and in this particular article Craig gives two examples of what those hidden premises might be. In fact, acknowledging explicitly acknowledging the premises of omnipotence and omnibenevolence doesn't seem to change his argument at all.
Here is the relevant section:
"So, according to the logical version of the problem of evil, (the two statements on your hand-out):
"(A) an omnipotent, omnibenevolent God exists"
and,
"(B) evil exists"
...are logically incompatible.
The difficulty for the atheist, however, is that statements (A) and (B) are not, at face value, logically inconsistent. There's no explicit contradiction between them. If the atheist thinks they are implicitly contradictory then he must be som - uh - assuming some hidden premises that would serve to bring out the contradiction and make it explicit.
But, what are those premises? Well, the atheist seems to be assuming two things:
"(1) If God is omnipotent then he can create any world that he desires"
and
"(2) If God is omnibenevolent then he prefers a world without evil over a world with evil""
Source:
http://www.reasonablefaith.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9031
