Though there is a lot there of interest if you want to explore Feser’s theology-including a really bizarre, sexist argument for God being a man (around pages 246-57).įeser’s last chapter will also be useful to you if you want to see how a theist responds to common rebuttals to his Five Arguments. But if none of those Proofs hold water, that chapter is just full-on moot. But that means his penultimate chapter can also be ignored, since all it does is build on the Five Proofs to resolve God into a more complex psychological entity with particular emotions, goals, and superpowers. But here my only thesis shall be that none of his arguments succeed in producing a sentient superbeing. Just compare it with my article Bayesian Counter-Apologetics for a start at what’s wrong here: the evidence actually argues against Feser’s God. Notably, like all Christian apologetics, that last chapter only “succeeds” by omitting everything that actually undermines his conclusions. Feser confesses he’s resurrecting the logic and arguments of Medieval scholasticism.įeser’s book contains one chapter for each of the titular five arguments, plus two more chapters, one attempting to extract more attributes for his thus-proven God, and one collecting and responding to some common rebuttals to his Five Arguments.

They are still thinking like Medieval monks, who didn’t know how evidence or science worked, didn’t know Aristotle was already obsolete even in the ancient world, and thought their own naive semantical armchair musings could tell them facts about the Universe.

Plantinga and Feser have a common thread of ignoring the sciences but even more, both are acting like the Modern Age never happened. Since there aren’t any good, easily locatable rebuttals online ( this one by Jonathan Garner is the closest I could find, and it’s a bit lackluster). I’ve now had several requests to take on Edward Feser’s Five Proofs of the Existence of God (2017).

I just completed a three-part series exposing the laughable science illiteracy of Alvin Plantinga’s “Two Dozen or So” arguments for God.

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