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Eric Boyd wrote:
> hey,
>
> Marie Foster <mfos@ieway.com>
> > Why Tim, my religious training was very clear on this.
> > It is man who has cast the world in shades of evil
> > and good you know...
>
> Actually, I read a *very* interesting piece about the freewill defence to
> the atheistic arguement for the non-existence of God by the presence of
> evil the other day -- just a little teaser here:
>
> "For instance, he could have made the world such that each new individual
> started afresh, like Adam and Eve, with a perfectly neutral nature, on the
> basis of which truly free choices could then be made. It bears noting that
> if he had done this, there would have been less evil and a freer human
> will!"
>
> http://www.infidels.org/library/modern/niclas_berggren/theodicy.html
>
> (that last quote was the final cincher in my own atheism -- a little bit of
> doubt did exist before, enough that I was semi-worried (even a small number
> times infinity is pretty big!) but this finally convinced me that the
> arguement from evil is truly cogent -- and that thus it's deductive insight
> is valid)
>
> > God it appears does not like challengers.
>
> I am still waiting for the next election -- I do honestly think that Jeremy
> stands a chance!
>
> http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/6609/votegod.htm
>
> ERiC
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