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    Challenges→God's allowing natural evils is justified.

    A perfectly good God possessing omniscience would have access to alternative means of producing virtuous souls that do not involve the scale of suffering caused by tsunamis, plagues, and earthquakes.

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    Alternative means(suggesting God could create virtuous people through different processes)
    Different methods or ways of achieving the same goal.
    Virtuous(describing the character of souls)
    Morally good; having admirable qualities like honesty, kindness, and courage.
    omniscience(The passage tests omniscience against mathematical undecidability)
    The property of knowing everything; used here to probe whether divine knowledge extends to undecided mathematical propositions.
    soul(Aristotelian natural philosophy as transmitted by 'Abd al-Latif)
    A principle introduced to explain animal life beyond what organs alone can account for, but insufficient on its own to explain the full range of human activity
    the problem of evil

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    The family of issues raised by the question of why pain, moral wickedness, and varieties of imperfection exist if a perfectly good and all-powerful God alone created everything in the universe.

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