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To: Brumar89 who wrote (43929)	12/11/2013 6:36:44 PM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 69300

God created free will so he could punish us with "natural" disasters because of the bad choices we made of our own free will & corruption? Or blame lets blame the demons because heaven forbid God had anything to do with it, thats swell, hes off the hook! ;o) Your famed apologist, who gets only 500 views on youtube, Alvin Platinga thinks so, you can't make this stuff up, unless your living 3000yrs ago, lol Alvin Plantinga has famously suggested that natural evils are caused by the free choices of supernatural beings such as demons. Others have argued that natural evils are the result of the fall of man, which corrupted the perfect world created by God; or that natural laws which are prerequisite for the existence of intelligent free beings; [27] or again that natural evils provide us with a knowledge of evil which makes our free choices more significant than they would otherwise be, and so our free will more valuable. [28] Lastly, it has been suggested that natural evils are a mechanism of divine punishment for moral evils that humans have committed, and so the natural evil is justified (see also Karma, just-world phenomenon, and original sin). Note how famous Alvin is, the sweet useless fellow gets only 500 views on Youtube "Free Will Defence, part 5 "Natural Evil and Probability"