ATHEIST PHILOSOPHER DAVID HUME "Were a stranger to drop suddenly into this world, I would show him, as a specimen of its ills, a hospital full of diseases, a prison crowded with malefactors and debtors, a field strewn with carcasses, a fleet foundering in the ocean, a...
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE THE IMPOSSIBILITY ARGUMENT? Up until the 1960s, critics of theism, like Epicurus and David Hume, said that the following two statements could NOT possibly both be true: 1. God is all-powerful and all-good. 2. Suffering exists. Philosophers call...
WHAT HAPPENED TO THE IMPOSSIBILITY ARGUMENT? In our last blog, we explored the "impossibility argument," or what philosophers call "the logical problem of evil" and concluded it was false. It's entirely possible for for an all-powerful and all-loving God to coexist...