CeilingCat
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I've been re-reading Steve Fuller's ID and the Science of God posts and I finally understand why ID failed so spectacularly at Dover. If this bonehead is the best ID can do for an expert witness, the movement is truly doomed.
In the first entry in this sorry series, we see Fuller recommending The Best of All Possible Worlds by Steven Nadler. Well, it just happens that I have that book - it's currently in the new books section at Borders - and I've read it.
Dr. Fuller, you seem to have a little reading comprehension problem. Read that book again and see if you can't detect its main message: Not even an intellect like Gottfried von Leibniz could overcome Theodicy. The best he could come up with was to claim that this is the best of all possible worlds - without having any explanation for why it's the best and why it couldn't be better, even if made and operated by an all-knowing, all-powerful God.
Look at your own words: | Quote | | The problem with such clarity, of course, is that the more we think we know the divine modus operandi, the more God’s allowance of suffering and evil looks deliberate, which seems to put divine action at odds with our moral scruples. |
Bingo professor Fuller! Even the densest IDiot (sorry Gil) dimly realises this and tries to steer clear of the topic - except for the uber-dense Dr. Dr. Dembski himself, who is apparently writing a book on Theodicy, which he has hopefully entitled The End of Christianity. You go, guy!
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