Category: Natural Theology

  • Outrage, praise and empathy

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    I often defend the following formulation of the moral argument (taken from William Lane Craig): 1. If God doesn’t exist, then objective moral duties don’t exist 2. Objective moral duties do exist 3. Therefore, God exists In defence of premise (2) I usually offer the following three points: 2.1. If objective moral duties don’t exist, →

  • A Brief Treatment of the Problem of Evil

    The problem of evil is usually considered one of the strongest arguments for atheism. In this short post we’ll consider it and possible responses available to the classical theist. The argument goes something like this: If God exists, then he is all-powerful (omnipotent) and all-good (omnibenevolent) and all-knowing (omniscient). If God is all-powerful, then he →

  • Defending the Moral Argument

    The Argument For those who don’t know, the Moral Argument is a class of theistic argument that attempts to argue for God’s existence from the existence of a universal moral law. Here I’m concerned with defending a single moral argument. It’s formulation is similar William Lane Craig’s (however, unlike Dr. Craig, I’m leaving out any →