Lesson 2.1: The Problem of Evil, Part I

If God is perfectly good, then this world demands an explanation—or a surrender of belief.

Topics discussed:

* The relationship between intellectualism and belief in the supernatural

* A Pyrrhonian-style move: examining both sides of the "religion vs. reason" debate

* Early Christianity as a countercultural and sometimes anti-intellectual movement

* Introduction to Baron d'Holbach—an early, explicit defender of atheism

* The notion of the God of the Gaps

* The Problem of Evil argument against God's existence