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    Challenges→If the ontological argument were sound, it would provide a rather decisive refutation of the argument from evil.

    If necessary existence cannot be coherently attributed to any being, then the ontological argument cannot establish probability-zero for God's nonexistence, and evidential arguments from evil retain their force.

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    Evidential arguments from evil(the competing argument referenced in the statement)
    Philosophical arguments that say the existence of suffering and evil in the world makes it unlikely that an all-powerful, all-good God exists (because such a God should be able to prevent evil).
    God's nonexistence(what the ontological argument allegedly rules out)
    The state of God not existing.
    Necessary existence(Contrasted with contingent existence in discussion of God's mode of being)
    Existence that is not contingent; the being does not just happen to exist or not exist.
    Probability-zero(describing whether God's nonexistence is logically impossible)
    Complete impossibility—something that has zero chance of being true or happening.
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    To keep their strength or power to convince us; to remain valid and persuasive.
    ontological argument(Described as an early and now-canonical formulation found in Anselm's Proslogion.)
    An argument that seeks to demonstrate God's existence from the concept or definition of God alone, without appeal to empirical evidence.

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