OK, I just posed "the Riddle of Epicurus" to him. Hopefully he'll come up with something better than the (fallacious) "Free Will" theodicy, or the "it's a mystery" objection.
As for the confrontational types, there is no way to engage in meaningful discussion with such people. The only logical response to them is something along the lines of, "You want me to believe XXX? OK, go ahead ... MAKE ME believe it. I dare you." (In other words, simply be defiant in return.) |