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Improvable Creations
God must create the best. But there is no best. Therefore, there is no God. Various philosophersâamong them Stephen Grover and William Roweâhave endorsed more elaborate versions of this argument. Dean Zimmerman (in âResisting Roweâs No-Best-World Argument for Atheismâ) has subjected their defenses of the argument to careful scrutinyâscrutiny that was in fact so careful that there remains very little to say about the argument. This essay contains my attempt to supply that very little
Do possible worlds compromise Godâs beauty? A reply to Mark Ian Thomas Robson
In a recent article Mark Ian Thomas Robson argues that there is a clear contradiction between the view that possible worlds are a part of God's nature and the theologically pivotal, but philosophically neglected, claim that God is perfectly beautiful. In this article I show that Robson's argument depends on several key assumptions that he fails to justify and as such that there is reason to doubt the soundness of his argument. I also demonstrate that if Robson's argument were sound then this would be a problem for all classical theists and not just those who hold the possible worlds view
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