Re: MD MOQ and The Problem Of Evil

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Date: Thu Aug 19 2004 - 05:21:31 BST

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    From: Ham Priday
    To: David Morey, Wednesday, August 18
    Subject: Re: MD MOQ and The Problem Of Evil

    Hi, David.
    You've modified one of Mark's 4 MOQ premises by defining DQ as follows:

    > DQ contains all possibilities

    You've suggested that God is "the source of all possibility". Chris
    Phoenix also refers to this idea in his most recent posting arguing for
    non-empiricist definition of DQ:

    > DQ is the creation of yet-to-be-filled evolutionary niches. Possibilities

    Other philosophers have postulated a teleology of "infinite possibility"
    that includes either multiple universes or multi-dimensional "existences" of
    the individual that occur simultaneously but with results that depend on the
    decisions made for a specific existence. Do you subscribe to such a theory?
    (I personally don't see them as necessary for a metaphysical ontology, but
    am interested in why philosophers continue to posit this concept; e.g., "all
    possible worlds".)

    I can understand the future as a possibility of choices (human and/or
    natural) whose reality will be known at a later time. But are you and Chris
    implying that there is more than one empirical reality? Please explain what
    you mean by "possibilities" in this context, and whether MOQ defines a
    theory of infinite possibility, that is, one that holds for all possible
    worlds.

    Thanks,
    Ham
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