Blackburn's Argument For Saving The Existence Of God
Noel Morban
Phil 102
12/12/2016
Final Paper
For my paper I want to argue that Blackburn is wrong for claiming that the existence of evil calls for a God that isn’t all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful. What brought me to this conclusion is his inability to look at things from different perspectives which can cloud or mislead judgement. Blackburn’s main argument is that we evidently face evil in our world so clinging onto the idea of our God being perfect becomes more and more difficult the more you look into it. To support this argument, he brings up an example of a management team working at a school that purposely allows their students to suffer but never interferes and fixes the problem.
If this is the case, the students should have no reason to believe that the management team is perfect the same way we shouldn’t assume God to fit that description given all of the suffering going on around the world. Although I understand his views, Blackburn’s argument should’ve also addressed the good in the world because only mentioning the bad from one scenario creates a preconceived notion of God’s intentions and …show more content…
At the time I was confident in believing that my parents weren’t so perfect for allowing this to happen but years later found that it was done because they were seriously worried about me not growing up to be a healthy child. When you compare this story with Blackburn’s analogy, you see that it’s very possible for someone’s judgement to be wrong regardless of how confident we feel at that moment. In my opinion, I believe God works very much in the same way in the sense that he’s clearly powerful and capable but might allow things to happen without us understanding the back story behind
Phil 102
12/12/2016
Final Paper
For my paper I want to argue that Blackburn is wrong for claiming that the existence of evil calls for a God that isn’t all-good, all-knowing, and all-powerful. What brought me to this conclusion is his inability to look at things from different perspectives which can cloud or mislead judgement. Blackburn’s main argument is that we evidently face evil in our world so clinging onto the idea of our God being perfect becomes more and more difficult the more you look into it. To support this argument, he brings up an example of a management team working at a school that purposely allows their students to suffer but never interferes and fixes the problem.
If this is the case, the students should have no reason to believe that the management team is perfect the same way we shouldn’t assume God to fit that description given all of the suffering going on around the world. Although I understand his views, Blackburn’s argument should’ve also addressed the good in the world because only mentioning the bad from one scenario creates a preconceived notion of God’s intentions and …show more content…
At the time I was confident in believing that my parents weren’t so perfect for allowing this to happen but years later found that it was done because they were seriously worried about me not growing up to be a healthy child. When you compare this story with Blackburn’s analogy, you see that it’s very possible for someone’s judgement to be wrong regardless of how confident we feel at that moment. In my opinion, I believe God works very much in the same way in the sense that he’s clearly powerful and capable but might allow things to happen without us understanding the back story behind