The Philosophy of Religion. The God of Philosophy

Introduction If you are a religious believer then it is unlikely that you require an argument to support your beliefs. If you are a non-believer, then it is even more unlikely that you will be converted or convinced based on any philosophical argument that claims to prove the existence of God. Ultimately the existence of God cannot be proven one way or another. However, I would like to investigate in this essay whether it is …

…equally weak. By looking at Cahn's "Cacodaemony," one can see how improbably it is that an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnimalevolent Demon created the world. Cahn's argument, however, exactly parallels Swinburne's in "The Problem of Evil." Both use the free-will defence to attempt to explain how evil or goodness could exist in a world created by God or a Demon. Both arguments have the same strength, as Cahn notes, and both are very weak arguments. If