Foreword by Stephen Law

Stephen Law was gracious to pen the foreword for my latest book, On the Problem of Good. One of the world’s most renown thinkers on religion, Law is an English philosopher and Reader in Philosophy at Heythrop College, University of London, fellow of The Royal Society of Arts and Commerce and Provost of the Centre for Inquiry UK. … Continue reading →

On the Problem of Good

Adapted from my new book, On the Problem of Good. The staggering amount and variety of evil in this world should not be the source of enormous confusion for believers in God. The world has not gone spectacularly wrong. The machine has not malfunctioned. There has been no mistake, no misstep, no ineptitude or imbecilic … Continue reading →

ON THE AFFLUENCE OF EVIL

The amount and variety of evil in our world has often baffled and perplexed believers in God, noted Plantinga[1]. Why, though, should it? Does it perplex observers that water runs downhill? Does it baffle the onlooker to see smoke rise? Is it at all confusing, confounding, or mystifying that fire burns flesh? God exists. Evil not … Continue reading →

The Omnimalevolent Creator and the Problem of Good

An adaptation of Christopher New’s 1993 essay: Antitheism, A Reflection  If we found a bomb concealed in a children’s kindergarten, primed and set to detonate when it would wreak the greatest possible carnage, we would reasonably assume that someone vicious and vile – someone evil – had designed the device and had purposefully put it … Continue reading →