The problem of evil in the world is a much more legitimate reason to conclude that theism is false, if God is an omnipotent and omniscient being why does he allow the suffering that goes on? In this essay I aim to argue that the problem of evil in the world is the best reason to believe that theism is false. ... The problem of evil is the one that stands out in the debate on theism. ... The ontological argument attempts to prove the existence in theism, it is difficult to disprove directly but cannot provide a sustained argument against the problem of evil. I...

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This leads us to wonder about the relationship between the immaterial mind and material body, commonly known in philosophy as the mind/body problem. ... With this in mind, Descartes deduces that the reliability of mathematics can no longer be doubted because God guarantees the truth of all self-evident ideas, but ones that can be calculated through mathematical physics. ... This question is actually part of a much larger area of debate that is known as the 'problem of evil'. This 'problem of evil' stems from the question of why God or a perfect being would create a unive...

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One can formulate philosophical problems either in a broad or narrow way. An argument that reflects a narrow version of problem restricts itself to citing certain inscrutable evil as one we have good reason to think is gratuitous and incompatible with the world being fabricated. ... An argument that cite the overall quantity of evil in the world, the overall quantity of certain kind of evil and natural evil that result from natural processes has a specific argument. The logical and empirical arguments from evil distinguish mutually compatible evils and pure logical sense of compatibility. The...

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Another problem with the Ontological Argument is the belief that existence is a real predicate. ... The purpose of the machine would still be evident, and that it is not relevant for the machine to be perfect to prove that it has a creator. ... The last argument denotes that an effect must be proportionate to its cause, and since the universe is imperfect with evil and suffering, then its creator also must be imperfect. ...

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Robert Browning, one of the most talented poets of the Victorian period, is famous especially for his dramatic monologues. Often these long poems deal with such issues as love, death, and faith. Much of his work is directly reflective of his life and of those issues that were of direct concern to hi...

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