To: Solon who wrote (26430 ) 5/25/2012 10:55:22 PM From: Greg or e Read Replies (1) | Respond to Given your moral relativist/atheist position: why would you, NO: HOW COULD YOU, object to a tribe deciding for themselves what is morally acceptable? The Problem of Good He must explain how evil itself could exist in the first place to make room for his complaint. He must account for the objective, transcendent moral standard that has to be in position before moral judgments of any kind can be made. How can anything ultimately be evil or good in a universe bereft of any standard to make sense of the terms? evolution is a materialistic process that can only produce material merchandise. No stirring and recombining of molecules over time will ever cause a moral fact to pop into existence in the immaterial realm. At best, Darwinism might account for behaviors or beliefs that human beings falsely label “moral” because the deception accomplishes some evolutionary purpose. But it is deception, pure and simple. The kind of robust morality necessary to ground the atheist’s complaint about evil is impossible on a materialist take on reality. No, the atheist has not gotten rid of the problem of evil by rejecting God. He has compounded the problem. The only thing he has gotten rid of is hope. Gregory Koukl :Greg Koukl Apologetics Permalink
