It's a reasonable faith with Dr. William Lankrack, I'm Kevin Harris.

Bill, this is right up your alley.

The name of the article is no play-toe, no scripture.

It's from Andrew Wilson from the Think blog, and we're going to go over some terminology

that people may be unfamiliar with, but we will unpack it as we go.

Bill, you've written a book about this, this whole topic called God Overall, Divine

Aseity and the Challenge of Platonism.

So before we look at this article, talk about your work on Platonism.

I spent 13 years studying this topic full-time, Kevin.

It seems to me that Platonism is the most powerful challenge to theism and the existence

of God that I've ever encountered, far more powerful than the problem of evil or the other

typical atheist objections.

According to Platonism, there exists not only concrete objects, like physical objects,

but also abstract objects, things like numbers and sets and other mathematical entities,

propositions, properties, possible worlds, even fictional characters like Sherlock Holmes

and Donald Duck.

And the thing about these abstract objects is that they tend to be self-existent and

therefore uncreated.

They are eternal, necessary beings that exist independently of God.

And what that means is that God is not the sole ultimate reality, is not, in fact, the

creator of everything that exists apart from himself.

Rather, God is sort of like a baby in a can of other babies rolling around.

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