PhD: Twitter quote 71

PhD: Twitter quote 71

This quote (s) is from my MPhil thesis, which was part one of the entire PhD project @ Wales.

2003 The Problem of Evil: Anglican and Baptist Perspectives: MPhil thesis, Bangor University.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 MPhil Wales 2003

JCZ photo 20200120_222302_HDR_resized, Las Vegas

Edited citations from my C.S. Lewis section within my MPhil thesis. I stated:

Twitter version I

The atheist can argue that for rational beings suffering is a wrong, it causes pain which is not good for the mind & body. Without a perfectly good God as a model, it can be argued that for evolutionary reasons suffering is needed. 

Twitter version II

With an evolutionary model, the weak must suffer and die in order for stronger beings to emerge, so thus what we see as a problem of evil could be a requirement of reality. 

(Non-exhaustive from my MPhil thesis, dealing with C.S. Lewis comments, not every evolutionary view in detail)

LEWIS, C.S. (1961)(1983) A Grief Observed, London, Faber and Faber. 

LEWIS, C.S. (1941)(1990) The Screwtape Letters, Uhrichsville, Ohio, Barbour and Company.

LEWIS, C.S. (1940)(1996) The Problem of Pain, San Francisco, Harper-Collins.

2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: PhD thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter 

PhD: Twitter quote 70

PhD: Twitter quote 70

Photo: Casa-Golf_Luciano-Kruk_Buenos-Aires_House_dezeen_1568_12 122315

This quote is actually from MPhil thesis, which was part one of the entire PhD project @ Wales.

2003 The Problem of Evil: Anglican and Baptist Perspectives: MPhil thesis, Bangor University.

Tuesday, January 10, 2006 MPhil Wales 2003

There was a troubling obstacle to his atheism. Lewis asked: "If the universe was so bad, or even half so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?" Lewis (1940)(1996: 3). 

LEWIS, C.S. (1961)(1983) A Grief Observed, London, Faber and Faber. 

LEWIS, C.S. (1941)(1990) The Screwtape Letters, Uhrichsville, Ohio, Barbour and Company.

LEWIS, C.S. (1940)(1996) The Problem of Pain, San Francisco, Harper-Collins.

2010 Theodicy and Practical Theology: PhD thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter 

Reasonable on arguments

Reasonable on arguments

The Reasons to Believe, Newsletter arrived via regular mail today.

'What characterizes a good argument?' Reasons To Believe Newsletter, March/April 2021, Glendora, California. 

More reason and logic from Reasons to Believe and Ken Samples. I agree (paraphrased) that a solid, reasonable, premise (s) supports a solid, reasonable conclusion. In other words, a good argument is presented.

As has been noted on this website:

A valid deductive argument can have false premises and a true conclusion (FT), false premises and a false conclusion (FF), true premises and a true conclusion (TT); however, true premises and a false conclusion (TF) is invalid. Valid arguments with all true premises are called sound arguments. These also have a true conclusion.

Archives 

Tuesday, February 13, 2018 Logic versus Truth

Monday, January 13, 2020 Logic is included in truth 

BLACKBURN, SIMON (1996) Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

CONWAY DAVID A. AND RONALD MUNSON (1997) The Elements of Reasoning, Wadsworth Publishing Company, New York.

LANGER, SUSANNE K (1953)(1967) An Introduction to Symbolic Logic, Dover Publications, New York. (Philosophy).

PIRIE, MADSEN (2006)(2015) How To Win Every Argument, Bloomsbury, London.  

Below is near the home of my good friend, the Norwegian Benny Hill (Google Maps)

PhD: Twitter quote 69

PhD: Twitter quote 69

Photo: Google Maps near where the Norwegian Benny Hill lives: Norway

P.S. Greenspan (1998) writes compatibilism holds to free will and determinism being compatible. Greenspan (1998: 1). 

GREENSPAN, P.S. (1998) Free Will and Genetic Determinism: Locating the Problem (s), Maryland, University of Maryland.

PhD thesis, the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Lampeter 

Some Compatibilism & Incompatibilism related articles from archives

Tuesday, May 30, 2006 Arminianism and Free Will

Thursday, August 31, 2006 Jonathan Edwards and Libertarian Free Will

Sunday, November 11, 2007 Fatalism 

Monday, March 10, 2008 Could they become Christians whenever they wanted?

Wednesday, January 14, 2009 PhD passed

Saturday, October 01, 2011 Alvin C. Plantinga and The Free Will Defence (PhD Edit)

Wednesday, February 01, 2012 Calvin on Augustine (PhD Edit)

Wednesday, July 11, 2012 Fatalism Revisited

Saturday, October 06, 2012 Middle Knowledge: Latin-Scientia Media (In Brief)

Wednesday, July 31, 2013 Compatibilism (MPhil)

Wednesday, April 30, 2014 Philosopher Frederick Ferre: Incompatibilism (PhD Edit)

Sunday, November 30, 2014 Prayer & Determinism (s)

Monday, June 29, 2015 Limited Free Will (Brief)

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 Middle Knowledge Revisited

Saturday, June 25, 2016 As exciting as watching a chess match (PhD Edit)

Sunday, February 12, 2017 Crucifixion & compatibilism

Thursday, February 23, 2017 Limited Free Will

Sunday, June 18, 2017 God cannot move a parked car

Friday, March 22, 2019 Brief on two sermons: Apostasy-Pelagianism

Thursday, December 19, 2019 Limited Free Will III

Tuesday, May 19, 2020 Reply to Miss Cia: Soft determinism, indeterminism, hard determinism, fatalism