PHIL 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Intelligent Design
29 May 2016
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H3: trickster god: no evolution, but god made all the evidence look as if evolution by n selection occurred. A1: if god exists, god would make all organisms green. A2: if god exists, god would make 90% organisms green. P1: if god exists, god is all pkg. P2: if god is all pkg, there would be no more evil than is necessary for freewill, soul building, and so on . P3: there is more evil than is necessary for freewill and soul building etc. Perhaps its impossible to know how much evil an all pkg being would allow. In both cases, the relevant auxiliary assumptions seem untestable. Contrast that with ordinary cases like sherlock holmes & discovery of. Philosophical scepticism (a posteriori): we don"t know/can"t justify our a posterior beliefs/claims. S knows that p if and only if: s believes p, p is true. Plato: 1 and 2 are not collectively sufficient for knowledge.
