| If you ask theists why there exists an omnipotent, omniscient and benevolent god, there is no further explanation they can give. |
| Open theists, following process theists, insist on the difficulties the Thomistic solution poses for human freedom. |
| But theists are not usually willing to say, in all contexts, that all the evil that occurs is a minute and necessary dose. |
| Years ago I wrote about the tendency of modernist, evolution-minded, progressive, pacifist theists to live long lives. |
| But as Johnson himself notes, many people think that they can be methodological naturalists and theists. |
| There are too many brilliant and clever scientists who know much more about science than I do who are theists, to say it can't be reconciled. |
