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    Challenges→The argument from evil should be formulated as an evidential (inductive/probabilistic) argument for the claim that existing evils make it unlikely that God exists, rather than as a deductive argument for the impossibility of God and evil coexisting.

    Rowe's evidential formulation relies on the claim that gratuitous evils probably exist, which itself presupposes contested background assumptions about divine purposes.

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