Episode 184: How Reason Can Lead to God [Part 2] with Dr. Josh Rasmussen

<p>Even if one might be convinced that reason can lead us to God, there remains the very real difficulty of the problem of evil. How can evil exist if an all-knowing, all-loving, all-powerful God exists? There are finally no easy answers to this question. Our guest again this week, author and philosopher Dr. Josh Rasmussen, shares with us his personal and philosophical perspectives on how he has negotiated this difficult issue, both through analytical arguments and through his own personal suffering. Philosophy, as it turns out, isn't just a dry academic exercise, but part of what constitutes the grand narrative of the very Gospel itself, a love of wisdom. <br><br></p><p><strong>Joshua Rasmussen</strong>, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Philosophy at Azusa Pacific University. His area of expertise is analytic metaphysics, with a focus on basic categories of reality, such as objects, ideas, and necessary existence. He is author of several books, including <em>Defending the Correspondence Theory of Truth</em> (Cambridge University Press, 2014), <em>Necessary Existence </em>(with Pruss; Oxford University Press, 2015), <em>How Reason Can Lead to God</em> (IVP Academic, 2019), and <em>Is God the Best Explanation of Things</em> (with Felipe Leon, Palgrave 2019). He is also the founder of the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/@WorldviewDesignChannel">Worldview Design YouTube channel</a>, which helps people use reason to address the big questions of life.</p><p><br><strong>Related Links: </strong>Free access to some related Watchman Profiles:</p><ul> <li>Watchman Fellowship 4-page Profile on <strong>Atheism</strong> by Dr. Robert Bowman: <a href="https://www.watchman.org/atheism">watchman.org/Atheism</a> </li> <li>Watchman Fellowship 4-page Profile on <strong>Agnosticism</strong> by W. Russell Crawford: <a href="https://www.watchman.org/Agnostic">watchman.orgAgnostic</a> </li> <li>Watchman Fellowship 4-page Profile on <strong>Divine Hiddenness</strong> by Daniel Ray: <a href="https://www.watchman.org/Hiddenne