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    Plantinga's free will defense applies only to moral evil,... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The good of libertarian free will requires the possibility of moral evil.

    Plantinga's free will defense applies only to moral evil, leaving natural evil—earthquakes, disease, child suffering—entirely unexplained by appeals to human freedom.

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    • 1.Plantinga explicitly grounds his defense in human libertarian free will, which has no application to natural disasters or diseases.
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    • 2.Natural evil causes suffering without any agent exercising choice, so freedom-based explanations are logically inapplicable to it.
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    • 3.Plantinga acknowledges but does not adequately address natural evil, leaving a significant gap in his theodicy.
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    • 1.Natural evil can result from free creatures' choices: pollution, deforestation, and negligence cause disease and suffering indirectly.
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    • 2.A world with natural laws enabling human freedom necessarily permits natural evils as a metaphysical byproduct of those same laws.
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    • 3.Plantinga's defense need not explain every instance of evil individually; showing one coherent explanation exists satisfies the logical problem.
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