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183: Answering God's Critics pt 13 - Problem of Evil pt 4 - Evidential Problem of Evil pt 2

183: Answering God's Critics pt 13 - Problem of Evil pt 4 - Evidential Problem of Evil pt 2

Update: 2025-11-22
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The evidential problem of evil falsely assumes that if God had a purpose for permitting the amounts/kinds of evil we see in the world, we would be able to discern what those reasons were. The bottom line is that so long as the existence of evil and the existence of evil are logically compatible, there is no good reason to think that greater amounts of evil make God's existence more unlikely.

I also discuss gratuitous evil. Some think that God can't exist if gratuitous evil exists, but this presumes that every evil must produce some good for it to be justified. The theist is not committed to such a proposition.

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183: Answering God's Critics pt 13 - Problem of Evil pt 4 - Evidential Problem of Evil pt 2

183: Answering God's Critics pt 13 - Problem of Evil pt 4 - Evidential Problem of Evil pt 2

Jason Dulle