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Puritan Board Freshman
What do ya'll think of this syllogism?
1. God is omnipotent (all knowing and all powerful); he is capable of creating a cosmos in which evil does not exist.
2. God is all good; God desires a cosmos in which evil does not exist.
3. Therefore evil cannot exist.
4. But we observe that evil does exist.
5. Therefore God does exist.
D.R. Griffin, God, Power and Evil (Philadelphia, 1976).
1. God is omnipotent (all knowing and all powerful); he is capable of creating a cosmos in which evil does not exist.
2. God is all good; God desires a cosmos in which evil does not exist.
3. Therefore evil cannot exist.
4. But we observe that evil does exist.
5. Therefore God does exist.
D.R. Griffin, God, Power and Evil (Philadelphia, 1976).