somebody wrote:
> In fact, even as an atheist, I don't think the argument from evil is a
> particularly strong one. For evil is a sliding scale.

So you're making exactly the argument of "well, the world doesn't really 

contain evil after all," which is exactly the phrasing I found interestin
g 
in the article.

You're doing the Descartes bit here. "In order to know good, we must know
 
evil first."  I think the fact that we *can* imagine things like Event 
Horizon means we have a pretty good idea of a sliding scale of evil. What
 if 
the "bad smell objectors" imagined Event Horizon and our world too. Would
n't 
they conclude the evil isn't all that bad?

> I would counter that what we perceive as evil are simply foul
> smells. 

"bulk of the discussion then becomes a matter of theists arguing that 
actually, the world’s pretty great, the evil things in it are per
fectly 
justified and necessary,"

-- 
   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".

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