By Chad Meister, James K. Dew Jr.
The query of evil―its origins, its justification, its solution―has plagued humankind from the start. each new release increases the query and struggles with the responses it really is given. questions about the character of evil and the way it's reconciled with the reality claims of Christianity are unavoidable; we have to be ready to reply to such questions with nice readability and strong faith.
God and Evil compiles the simplest considering on all angles at the query of evil, from many of the best students in faith, philosophy and apologetics, including
- Gregory E. Ganssle and Yena Lee
- Bruce Little
- Garry DeWeese
- R. Douglas Geivett
- James Spiegel
- Jill Graper Hernandez
- Win Corduan
- David Beck
With extra chapters addressing "issues in discussion" comparable to hell and human origins, and a now-famous debate among evangelical thinker William Lane Craig and atheist thinker Michael Tooley, God and Evil offers serious engagement with contemporary arguments opposed to religion and gives grounds for renewed self assurance within the God who's "acquainted with grief."
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124 Paul Copan 1o Evil and the Hiddenness of God . . . . . . . . 138 Chad Meister ii Evil and Prayer: Set Prayers and Other Special Weapons and Tactics in Times of Trouble . . . . . . . . 152 Charles Taliaferro 12 Evil, the Resurrection and the Example of Jesus . . . . 163 Gary Habermas 13 Evil in Non-Christian Religions . . . . . . . . 175 Win Corduan 14 Evil and the New Atheism . . . . . . . . . 197 David Beck 15 Evil as Evidence for Christianity .
This move strengthens his argument because it is hard to tell the degree to which some evidence counts for or against a theory without comparing the explanation with alternative explanations. That is, we can have a better idea of whether some evidence (our observations about evil) counts for or against one theory (theism) when we compare how well that evidence counts for or against a rival theory (atheism). A RESPONSE TO DRAPER There are similarities between the arguments of Rowe and Draper. As a result, a response to one may resemble a response to the other.
That is, it concerns the probability of a claim given what we know. It is not a numerical kind of probability, such as the fact that the probability of a coin toss coming up heads is 5o percent. A good way to grasp how to compare which of the two claims is more probable, given a certain body of evidence, is to ask which claim would make the evidence less surprising. The claim that makes the evidence less surprising, given the evidence, is the more probable claim. Another way to look at it is that the claim that makes the evidence less surprising makes it less surprising because it explains the evidence better than the other claim.