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Peter Vardy claims that there is no way to justify dysteleology or excess suffering. Evil seems to be more definite than a mere ‘privation of good’ for example Child cruelty is not just the lack of Child sup...

One way in which the classical form of the problem of evil could be seen as a problem is because surely an omnibenevolent and omnipotent God would not allow for His creation to experience evil and suffering....

Moral realism is a metaethical view composed of a semantic and a metaphysical claim. The semantic claim, cognitivism about moral discourse, holds that moral judgements are robustly truth-apt. The metaphysica...

The claim that knowledge of God can be known through reason alone is highly flawed. This is due to the fact that our reason, or a priori knowledge, cannot be empirically verified. Therefore, by only acceptin...

There are many different arguments that are used as a way of showing that the Christian God exists. I will explain two common ones that were developed by St Thomas Aquinas: his cosmological and teleological ...