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What We Are Going to Investigate, and How
In God, Evil, and Design. Oxford, UK: Blackwell. pp. 1–18 (2008)
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This chapter contains sections titled: Two Investigations The Veil of Ignorance Suggested Reading.Author's Profile
‘God,’ ‘evil,’ and ‘design’ and two investigations A fact, a belief, and friction between them God to be a perfectly good, all‐knowing and all‐powerful, supernatural being friction is natural idea of all‐perfect creator squares with the world second investigation ‐ veil of ignorance all things considered, and believing and concluding does the idea of God square with occurrence of pointless suffering and waste of life? precedents or near‐precedents, in theistic philosophy and this veil‐of‐ignorance approach
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