| Scruton's argument, I think, will be persuasive only to someone who already is a theist. |
| The Atheist is only calling the attention of the theist to the consequences of his own argument. |
| In particular, it invites the theist to explain how a being that is omniscient, omnibenevolent, and omnipotent can allow evil to exist. |
| The theist who wants to build a systematic and thorough apologetic finds that he is required to begin absolutely from the beginning. |
| Every theist is essentially a creationist in the generic sense of the term, even if he or she places that creation billions of years in the past. |
| In this sense, every theist and every deist is a creationist. |
