Peter W. Piketus’s Problem of Good (PoG) Argument
Some atheists think that they have warrant to do whatever they please in certain situations, willfully disregarding certain “facts” that are true (for me), all while ignoring the “fact” (which is also true for me) that I wrote a couple of books about stuff once.
Let me try to reason with them here.
In the first place, atheists don’t believe in the existence of problems, so atheism isn’t really speaking to the issue of how to reason.
Today, I was minding my own business after lunch when my supervisor came up and asked me if I would like to go to the Colorado Avalanche hockey game tomorrow night. For free. We’re talking club level tickets here, at center ice, with free valet parking.
Answer me and do not lie. If this happened to you, would you doubt the goodness of God? If so, you’re a Detroit Redwings fan (or, even worse, a Vancouver Canucks fan!) and are thus incapable of reasoning any further.
As human beings, we all know that there is such a thing as good, and that good is known as the National Hockey League (NHL). This is true even within the atheistic worldview, for if there is good there must be hockey. It is the sine non quantum mechanics of reality.
Now certain atheists will say that I am offering an external critique here; but how can they pretend to offer an internal critique if they deny me the ability to use my internal critique I just made up? It is internal to atheism that hockey is a good thing; therefore, God.
Only a moron would disagree with this. I teach ethics and have my own blogspot blog. Do you? Answer me and do not lie.





