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Unknowable Worlds: Solving the Problem of Natural Evil. Research Post

In “Unknowable Worlds: Solving the Problem of Natural Evil by Frank J. Murphy, he makes the argument that God is justified in allowing natural evil and free will. Here, he reasons that a considerable amount of gratuitous suffering could not have been foreseen or prevented by God. While natural evil is not due [...]

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Cosmological Argument

In class we have been exploring the two main kinds of the Cosmological Argument. Aquinas’ Second Way argues for God’s existence by saying that everything has a cause or causal chain that created it including the universe. Since that can be no uncaused thing, God must exist to create it the first cause. [...]

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God can lift the Stone

According to the paradoxical argument of the stone, it asks if an Omnipotent being can create a stone heavy enough that itself cannot even lift it. Here it is paradoxical because if the Omnipotent being can lift the stone, it fails to make that heavy stone. Again, if it cannot lift it, it [...]

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