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MSL Problems and Solutions

This page exists for listing problems / potential problems with MSL. (MSL is a natural theology and its implications.) Also, for solving those problems.

These problems might be inconsistencies, lack of called-for evidence, unwarranted assumptions, etc. -- generally things that mean my claims are not successful as stated. They may also be cases where it's not clear what I was saying.

If you want to submit a problem or solution, email me.

If you find a problem or solution and post it in a comment on the blog, I will copy it over here.

--James Banks

Problems

Potential problem?: 1. God finds unbearable suffering unbearable -- so, as Legitimacy, it's morally wrong. 2. Does he find it unbearable as what he is or as who he is? Definitely as what he is. The suffering has power on that level. 3. If we need to have God's heart, does that mean that we need to feel as much pain over evil as he does? But we can't? (4. One path for a solution: we need to be disposed to feel as much pain in order to be in tune with him. If necessary to share in what he is, we can be given that nature. In heaven, there is no unbearability or evil, so there it doesn't matter.)

Open question: Pascal's Wager: which heaven is better, which hell is worse, when comparing religious promises/threats? (Which heaven is a better infinity, which hell a worse infinity?) Inspired by https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/o7BoboZkDrZtkFBi2/consider-religion

Open question: If someone dies young, why couldn't God give them an extra however-many years in the Millennium to make up for it? (Possibly I answered this on the blog already.)