CarlShulman comments on How confident is your atheism? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Logos01 18 June 2012 01:30:47PM *  2 points [-]

I am thiiiiiiiiis confident!

I'm surprised to see this dialogue make so little mention of the material evidence* at hand with regards to the specific claims of Christianity. I mean; a god which was omnipotent and omnibenevolent would surely create a world with less suffering for humanity than what we conjecture an FAI would orchestrate, yes? Color me old-fashioned but I assign the logically** impossible a zero probability (barring of course my being mistaken about logical impossibilities).

* s/s//
** s/v/c/

Comment author: gwern 18 June 2012 03:54:07PM *  4 points [-]

See Plantinga's free will defense for human and the variant for natural evils; it defuses the logical argument from evil. (Of course it does this by postulating 'free will', whatever that is, but I don't think free will is nearly as clear cut a p=~0 as the existence of evils...)

Comment author: CarlShulman 21 June 2012 05:16:51AM 1 point [-]

Of course it does this by postulating 'free will', whatever that is,

Plus the dubious moral view that the seemingly incoherent variety of free will is of immense axiological importance.