In this special brothers Abdul & Jake talked to Alex Malpass, a well-known Atheist Philosopher, about arguments for God's existence and about Theism and Atheism more generally.
The “Evil God Argument” is an attempt to demonstrate that all the arguments used to explain away evil or why evil exists while maintaining a belief in the existence of a good God can also be applied in reverse to an evil God. If then we can easily dismiss the evil God arguments by what seemingly seems to be true about the world then similarly we should also dismiss a good God also. This argument has been popularised by Stephen Law as well as atheist YouTubers like CosmicSkeptic (Alex O’Connor) amongst others. In this stream we look at whether there is any justification to favour the belief in the existence over a good God rather than an evil one.
Often we hear people saying that Islam’s position is incoherent or illogical. Or that they’ll claim that God is impossible. Similarly some will appeal to mystery when presented with a clear logical contradiction and so it becomes important to actually explain what is considered a logical impossibility. Without clearly knowing what is or isn’t a logical impossibility one cannot formulate a proper argument and on what principle they are appealing to.