If God must create the best feasible world, and that world necessarily contains suffering matching HI's predictions, then HI's accuracy reflects divine necessity, not evidence against theism.
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HI(as a shorthand for a particular theological explanation)
An abbreviation for 'Theistic Hypothesis' or a specific explanation for why evil exists in the world (often called the 'free will defense' or similar).
Necessity/Necessarily(the statement says suffering is necessarily contained in the best possible world)
Something that must be true or must happen; it couldn't be any other way.
theism(Distinguished from monotheism as a weaker claim about the number of divine beings.)