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Melbourne University: The Problem of Evil

(gwiz665)
1 decade 5 years 4 months 3 weeks ago

Problem of Evil held at the University of Melbourne last month. Speakers: Russell Blackford, Barney Zwartz, Peter Adam, and Lyn Allison.

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Skeeve

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This could be such an interesting talk, unfortunately when theists (like the second and third speakers) talk they do not further the discussion one bit. They make the massive assumption that their god (and their holy books) are the absolute truth and so the ideas they present are only functional within that belief's framework. Further, theists always end up saying something like "we can't know god, he is too amazing for us to understand, therefore we can't understand his plan." It's such a cop out.

Applause goes to the fourth speaker, for her absolutely dead-on description of religion and evil that none of the other speakers were able to contradict, and to the first for his excellent comment on the political role of religion (if someone makes policy based on the morals of a non-existent god, where does their moral authority come from?).