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

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    • 1.If the ontological argument were sound, it would show not merely that there is an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect being, but that it is necessary that such a being exists.
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    • 2.If it is necessary that such a being exists, then the proposition that God does not exist must have probability zero on any body of evidence whatever.
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    • 3.If the probability of God's nonexistence is zero on any body of evidence, then no evidence of evil could support the conclusion that God does not exist.
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    • 1.The soundness of the ontological argument is itself contested by appealing to conceivability intuitions about evil-permitting worlds, making its epistemic status inseparable from the problem of evil.
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    • 2.Mackie and Plantinga both recognize that modal intuitions pumping the ontological argument can be undermined by equally valid intuitions that a world of gratuitous suffering is possible without God.
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    • 3.A refutation that presupposes its conclusion by embedding God's necessity into the premise structure commits a form of question-begging against the evidential atheist.
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    • 1.Necessary existence, as Kant argued, is not a genuine predicate that survives translation into first-order logic, leaving the modal move from conceivability to actuality unwarranted.
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    • 2.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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    If the ontological argument were sound, it would provide a rather decisive refutation of the argument from evil. For in showing not merely that there is an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect being, but also that it is necessary that such a being exists, it would entail that the proposition that God does not exist must have probability zero on any body of evidence whatever.

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