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Is Islam more rational than Atheism? | Eron Fasser, Mohammed Hijab, Mark Oppenheimer, Hamza Tzortzis

Brain in a Vat

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The Problem of Evil in Islam

It's a totally false argument in Mr. Presents Islamic Theism because it assumes that evil has some kind of ontological reality, says Hans-Arjogris. Also we have another argument against you, people's dilemma - there is no external standard that Allah has to submit to. And although it is good because God commanded it, his commands are not arbitrary. They're not dislocated away from his nature. That's a false assumption. We see they cannot be arbitrary unless you believe that something could come from nothing or something world designed is actually based on some kind of randomness.

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