On Stone's Evidential Atheism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20142973 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael Almeida (0000-0002-7257-4236, The University of Texas at San Antonio, corresponding author), Michael J Almeida |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 72 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 5-22 |
| Publication date | 2006-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theoria (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0040-5825 • E-ISSN: 1755-2567 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1755-2567.2006.tb00941.x |
| OpenAlex | W2095197716 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
The newest evidential argument from evil contends that the evidence we have from the goods we know about strongly confirms the thesis that some significant suffering does not result in an outweighing good.The argument concludes that theism is therefore improbable.Included in the argument is the assumption that the probability that we do not observe the outweighing goods for some actual evilsgiven that there are such goodsis extremely low.But since there are billions and billions of instances of evil the chances on the contrary approximate certainty that we do not observe outweighing goods for some of them.We therefore have good reason to believe the newest evidential argument is unsound and so provides no interesting objection to theism
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| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
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