PHL101Y1 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Intelligent Designer, Evil Demon, Heredity
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Local argument from design: where the reasoning for god is in the details not big picture, draws from resemblance between obvious creations of intelligence (watch) to other parts of the natural world (eyes) God is assumed to be all loving and all-powerful: therefore he can abolish evil completely, but evil still exists so god cannot be either omnipotent or all-loving. People are different from animals because they are created in image of god. Soul-making: non-moral evil hardships encourage good character, because a perfect world with no pain and inconsistent physical laws will not harbor good people. Compatibilist-free will and determinism do not counter each other. You freely do x iff you do x, doing x is what you choose to do and you have the power to act otherwise. If you were determined by nature and physical laws to do y instead, you would be able to have done y instead of x.
