2 thoughts on “CRITICAL THINKING: “Something is Wrong Here” / George Carlin”

1. Yet another attempte to assert the problem of moral evil as an argument against the existence of God? Really? So, God is responsible for all that, because, in His omnipotence, even in the face of human free will, He could easily have created a universe in which moral evil could neither logically nor practically exist.

   Let me be succinct here, because the problem of moral evil (an extremely weak argument) deserves no more. The first problem with the argument is that it can only exist at all on theism, as atheism cannot ground moral evil (or good, for that matter). If we’re all just dancing the DNA jingle, to paraphrase Richard Dawkins, what’s morally evil to you might be just as correctly be morally good to someone else, with no recourse as to who is Right. Humanity might be a blight on all materiality, in which case wars and genocide can only be evil if they only remove some and not all. Just because George Carlin doesn’t approve the Holocaust, on atheism doesn’t mean it was inherently evil. On atheism the determination of good and evil is nothing more than a power play; had the Nazis won WWII and killed or brainwashed everyone else, on atheism the Holocaust would have been a great moral victory, in fact as well as in perception. Only on theism can moral evil objectively exist.

   The second fatal problem with the argument is in its dependence on the assertion that the non-existence of evil is consistent with human free will. If good exists, then it follows the necessity of the logical existence of its opposite, evil. And if humans have free will, then they can choose evil. So, if God prevents humans from choosing evil, He is preventing free will. A number of atheists have recognized this flaw in the argument and have embarked on various half-minded adventures in denying the existence of free will. If free will exists, the ability of humans to choose evil exists, therefore the non-existence of moral evil is logically impossible. Since omnipotence does not include the ability to do the logically impossible, the existence of moral evil is consistent with the existence of God.

   The only thing the argument can possibly prove is that George Carlin is not God. That is not new information.

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   • Never learned logic but it sounds ummmmm sound, yet for one flaw, logic is grounded in the human perception, for a god that is infinite, human perception is an invisible spec in the crystal so to speak. The only thing your argument proves is the inability of logic to prove anything humans cannot.

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