Why Is Blackburn Wrong

Why Blackburn is wrong

In his paper “God” Blackburn argues the existence of evil strongly suggesting that there is not an entity which can be all-good all-knowing and all-powerful. Throughout this paper I will shine light where Blackburn could not and prove how he was unquestionably wrong.
In his Chapter the Problem of evil Blackburn states a God who created a perfect world for his children could not be worshipped as all loving, because no parent would ever throw their kids into a harsh environment specially one as unforgiving as ours. He further argues God’s unwillingness to solve the issues at hand in the first place such as how the survival of some creatures are undeniably based upon the suffering of others; he goes as far as even giving
Being human is much more than being logical machines that thrive under the concept of survival; we feel, in fact emotions that could as well be consider the counterpart to rationality and the very flame of free will itself. Computers are the closest things that come remotely near to us in comparison, but the two things that separates us from our own invention is not only rational thought of our own, but also our ability to connect and interact with our surroundings at a much more emotional level. Things like empathy, and morals are hardly understood without a base of emotion that later derives into ethics which brings me to my next point. It is true that it may seem at first that an all knowing, all powerful, and all good god who has the means to stop all suffering may seem evil because he possesses the means and the willingness and yet crosses his arms, but Blackburn fails to realized that as he mentioned before, if we are a design of God created in his own imagine, is it wrong to assume that he too possesses emotions? No, this would not only explain why an all-powerful and all good might be at odds at stepping in, how could a father have a favorite amongst his children. It would explain why we have inherited free will. It is not that he is not willing or able to help us is that he must not, for instance if two nations waged war on each
I would respond with the following: is it not the feeling itself that fuels the very same thrive to ask the questions you are asking? If it was not for men’s quest of understanding Blackburn would not be asking these questions, the need to know where you must try to understand is a clear example of how feelings such as doubt come into play, the very mechanism that if there was a god he would have given us in order to thrive in the very same harsh environment he placed us in, not to make us suffer, but as a reminder that we are well equipped for it we not only have our rationality but our ability to resonate with others. If we could not feel emotions from the very core of our instincts, we would not be the social individuals that we have proven ourselves to be throughout history, from being able to start communities to build towns that would later turn into cities. Ultimately it is not that we do not have an all-powerful god who is all knowing and all good, but rather that because Blackburn did not take into account the impact of emotions he was unable to understand how God would have a hard time stopping the “evils” of the world considering that all from Humans to bacteria is fact his children putting him between a rock and a hard