By Richard Carrier & Tom Wanchick
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4] On the origin of life, see the various publications of intelligent design theorist Stephen C. Meyer. See also Walter C. Bradley and Charles Thaxton, The Mystery of Life's Origin (Philosophical Library, 1984), and Hugh Ross and Fuz Rana, Origins of Life (Colorado Springs: NavPress, 2004). 48 [5] For such calculations see John Barrow and Frank Tipler, The Anthropic Cosmological Principle (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986). org. P. Moreland, Body and Soul (Downer's Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2000); Richard Swinburne, The Evolution of the Soul (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997); David H.
Are only appreciated by the learned, but they indisputably contain beauty and elegance. Indeed, we can only learn to appreciate a thing if there's something to appreciate. Thus Carrier's response fails to discount beauty's objectivity and ultimately affirms it. He never controverts my statement that such features suggest design. Evil Carrier thinks evil depends on human needs or desires. But this is question-begging since he never answers my argument that evil is a departure from design. , are evil regardless of needs or desires.
For example, merely asserting that he has moral opinions contrary to mine establishes nothing more than that he has moral opinions contrary to mine. He also misrepresents my moral opinions, but regardless, I am sure he and I disagree on many issues of morality. [19] 33 Wanchick's Ontological Argument (WOA) "Nothing" is a "possible total state of affairs" and is therefore a possible world, called PWN. PWN lacks a god, and everything else. Therefore, if a "necessary being" must exist in all PWs, then no thing can be a necessary being, since there is no being in PWN.