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JOhn Perry

re not related to their debate. Although he really won the debate because he has shown the existence of God and existence of suffering is consistent, he knows he cannot convincing others if the debate is not only set to show the possibility of God exist. Furthermore, Weirob accepts Miller pray for her because she agrees that Miller can have his own freedom to do anything. In fact, we can know that she does not satisfy with Miller’s account of joy and suffering, good and evil. She thinks the pleasure and pain are the point of experience form nature’s point of view. She thinks pain signals danger and there is a surplus of pain, all sorts of pain, serving no evolutionary purpose. She thinks good and evil are a double accident. She also thinks “good and evil are human concepts that we use to classify intentional action.” (p.66) Pleasure and pain are the ways of getting creatures to seek and avoid situations, depending on whether the situations are good or bad for their survival and the probability of their passing on genes is a necessary condition. This convinces us that the concept of good and evil in human and other creatures such as animal are totally difference. It seems that she does not totally admit God really exist in this world and she still agrees the Manichaeans ‘ theory that there are two ultimate principles controlling the world, good and evil and they are both basic and strong forces and our world is their battleground. So this shows us that she really does not think evil is a creation of good, or vice versa. Cohen is the neutral one from the start to the end of the debate. But he is really helpful to them because he raises some useful ideas during the debate. Finally, he does not really show up what is his thinking, but his ideas are very convincing us to think he believes there is God exists. After reading this book, I know the author Perry tries to use these dialogues...

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