Reconsidering Absolute Omnipotence Summary

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Groarke, Louis. "Reconsidering Absolute Omnipotence." The Heythrop Journal 42.1 (2001): 13-25. Academic Search Premie. Web. 10 Sept. 2015. The author and researcher at Trent University, used the articles from John McTaggart, J. L. Mackie, Earl Condee, and Danny Goldstick which base on an omnipotent god cannot do everything to prove that god does not exist. The author argues that the atheistic tradition is wrong. First of all, a omnipotent god can make the world with suffering base on the act of benevolence. Second, the author believes that the definition of omnipotent has been mistaken. A god with absolutely omnipotent will, in another way, lack of power. So when the atheistic who consider that omnipotent is fully powerful misunderstand the meaning of omnipotent.

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Williams, Patricia A. "The Problem of Evil: A Solution From Science." Zygon 36.3 (2001): 563-74. Web. 10 Sept. 2015. The author
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Z. Phillips’ Problems with Evil and with God." the third. I rank the sources base on how the sources relative to Mackie's argument and my own opinions about Mackie's argument. The first source briefly talks about the argument states by multiple philosophers include Mackie, which believe god did not exist or god is not omnipotent because evil exist. And then the author start state his own opinion which is "god needs evil to make human being have morality." Which is also my point of view! I look deeper inside the journal and found many point of views are pretty similar to mine. And because he is a philosophy professor, he's article suggest the opinion much more complex and with more details that I can think about. So I believe this source should be the first because it not only contain the information about Mackie but also author's viewpoints are much the same with mine. So it might be a huge help while I writing the