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Plantinga and Gale on God and Evil

One of the most inter­est­ing (and humor­ous) dis­cus­sions I’ve ever seen on the topic of God and evil was one between philoso­phers Alvin Planti­nga and Richard Gale. Planti­nga is notable for two things; he’s regarded as one of the pio­neers in the renais­sance of Chris­t­ian phi­los­o­phy, as it’s called. He’s also con­sid­ered to have put an end to the intel­lec­tual argu­ment from evil. Gale has him­self writ­ten quite a few books on meta­physics, ontol­ogy and God. The dia­logue is very infor­ma­tive and the dis­cus­sion easy to fol­low (even if at times a bit dif­fi­cult to under­stand­ing). So please, watch Which gives me an idea for another post…

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