{"id":6610,"date":"2016-03-08T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/08\/does-evil-prove-the-nonexistence-of-god\/"},"modified":"2016-03-08T16:56:09","modified_gmt":"2016-03-08T16:56:09","slug":"does-evil-prove-the-nonexistence-of-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2016\/03\/08\/does-evil-prove-the-nonexistence-of-god\/","title":{"rendered":"Does Evil Prove the Nonexistence of God?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I'll grant you that it does if you grant me that truth, existence, order, conscience and twenty of so other phenomena<\/a> prove the existence of God.  And let's not leave out the moral heroism of Maximilian Kolbe<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

You can reasonably ask how there could be  a God given the fact of natural and moral evil.  You can also reasonably ask how there could not<\/em> be a God given the transcendent moral heroism and selflessness of Kolbe and others like him.<\/span><\/p>\n

I'll grant you that evil argues the nonexistence of God if you grant me that evil also argues the existence of God. (Click on the first hyperlink and locate the argument from evil for<\/em> the existence of God.)<\/span><\/p>\n

My point is that there are no rationally compelling arguments for or against the existence of God. <\/span><\/p>\n

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I'll grant you that it does if you grant me that truth, existence, order, conscience and twenty of so other phenomena prove the existence of God.  And let's not leave out the moral heroism of Maximilian Kolbe. You can reasonably ask how there could be  a God given the fact of natural and moral evil.  … Continue reading “Does Evil Prove the Nonexistence of God?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6610","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-atheism-and-theism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}