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The Evidential Problem of Evil

M. Peterson, “The Evidential Argument from Evil”

21st Century Thinkers, Responses to the Problem of Evil & the Problem of Pain, The Evidential Problem of Evil

For several decades, discussions of the “inductive” or “probabilistic” or “evidential” argument from evil have been major fare in philosophy of religion. The target of this type of argument is standard theism—the view that there exists an omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good being who created the world. Of course, theistic religions call this being “God.” […]

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Rowe, “Evil Is Evidence against Theistic Belief”

20th Century Thinkers, Responses to the Problem of Evil & the Problem of Pain, The Evidential Problem of Evil

1 The Issue: The specific question assigned to us for discussion is this: Grounds for belief in God aside, do the evils in our world make atheistic belief more reasonable than theistic belief? The initial clause in this question is important. For it is one thing to argue that the evils in our world provide

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