Ahhh, snared!Eduk wrote:Do you truly not understand what an atheist might mean when they call something or someone evil? Let me put it this way, can you think of more than one definition of evil, and can you think of a definition which would make sense when applied to an atheist? If you really can't, then I think you only have two reasonable options.Every atheist who poses the so-called problem of evil implicitly believes in evil.
1. Ask and then listen.
2. Go to a non philosophical site, maybe troll YouTube or something.
I stated, "Philosophically there are two types of evil, natural evil and moral evil. Natural evils are not man-caused, like an earthquake or plague. Moral evils are willful acts by a human being, like rape and murder".
You confuse folk definitions for philosophic definitions. Understandable, due to the incoherence of atheistic ideology, whatever that is.
The one thing atheist/rejectionist cannot escape is naturalism or materialism, as a result of that ideology, whatever that is.
Without "natural evil", environmental flux, geological and chemical change, darwinian evolution would be unnecessary. The world would be perfect, as it was, for those initial eukaryotic, or prokaryotic, (which ever chicken and egg scenerio seems fit), lifeforms and have no selective impetus to adjust to, and by, environmental influences.
"Moral evil" would be a product of darwinian evolution and thereby have a reproductive advantage at some stage of darwinian development which persists to be observable today. Rape, murder, lying, greed are just a product of gene centered evolution, and has, some reproductive advantage, as I stated.
The atheist can't have it both ways. Either he argues that evil exists, and exists as either moral or natural acts and actions, and thereby must provide supportive evidence and proofs why these acts and actions are evil depending on some darwinian advantage. Or, he must argue that evil is relative, or doesn't exist.
In either case, for the atheist, who engages in philosophic argumentation he must admit that evil exists and has a purpose according his own naturalistic worldview.
Unless you don't believe darwinism is valid?