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attempt at refutation will be made here: we have shown repeatedly
that every attempt to limit the applicability of the rational
categories, or to define a sphere into which reason cannot enter,
is self-contradictory and therefore untenable. About the only
appropriate thing to say to an irrationalist is that well-worn remark
of J. M. E. McTaggart to the effect that no one every tried
to break logic but that logic finally broke him. A few remarks
in the context of the problem of evil may nevertheless be appropriate
as a supplement to such comment.
In the first place, is a problem solved by denying the possibility
of its solution? It would seem to be no explanation of evil
at all that its presence in the universe is inexplicable. If someone
objects [[348]] that while finite intelligence may not be able
to solve the problem, the infinite intelligence may not be able to
solve the problem, the infinite intelligence of God has the answer,
then we counter that intelligence in God is not essentially
different from intelligence in man and that therefore reason
ought to be able to evolve at least the principles of the solution,
even though the reason employed be finite and human. Further,
we answer that the theory would then reduce to instrumentalism
by suggesting that evil is a problem only from our limited point
of view: but instrumentalism has already been defeated.
To state the matter in more complete fashion: if we say that
the problem of evil is rationally insoluble, then we must select
one of the following alternatives: first, that the problem is rationally
insoluble only to us, but admits of solution rationally
from God's point of view---but this is instrumentalism. Or we
may allege that the problem is absolutely without rational solution.
And this in turn involves two further alternatives: that
God Himself, since His reason is essentially analogous to ours,
does not have the solution to the problem---but this is either finitism,
or nescientism, or both; that the problem is soluble to
God, but not through the instrumentality of reason.