The Anthropic Argument Against the Existence of God
If God is morally perfect then He must perform the morally best actions, but creating humans is not the morally best action. If this line of reasoning can be maintained then the mere fact that humans exist contradicts the claim that God exists. This is the ‘anthropic argument’. The anthropic argumen...
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Sophia
Year: 2009, Volume: 48, Issue: 4, Pages: 351 |
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Free Will
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