If Good and Evil Exist then God Exists

[EricFilmer]

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This is actually a very good point, but I don’t completely buy it. From the naturalistic perspective, persons arise from inanimate matter. Couldn’t an objective law concerning persons also arise from inanimate matter?

First of all, I disagree with your statement that people arise from inanimate matter because cells are not inanimate. But for the sake of argument, let us say that this is, indeed, the case. I won’t say that your proposed theory is flat out impossible, but I would say that it is too far from the realm of possibility to make it a feasible consideration. Once again, I bring up the aspect of human diversity. Even if people arise from inanimate matter, the people who arise have a great amount of diversity. Therefore, a system of morality which owes its existence from the same origins would mirror this diversity. Hence, there would not be objective morality, or even a seemingly objective morality.

As to the merit of the video, I agree that a few atheists who view this might call into question their own view of morality and consider the implications of an objective morality. However, I think it may do more harm than good. When atheists hear several “proofs” for God’s existence that fall short of being conclusive, they often begin to make inferences about all proofs for God’s existence. I think that if we have any hope of getting through to atheists, than we have to purge ourselves of the arguments that just don’t work. They just make us look desperate to rationalize our religion. In the case of this video and many other arguments, it would probably just be easiest and best to relabel them as food for thought, rather than a conclusive proof for the existence of God.

Once again, I do not see Kreeft’s video as making the kind of emphatic claims that you attribute to it. See again my comment regarding this in Post #236.