Stephen Wykstra's CORNEA principle establishes that we can only claim Pr(P | not-G) = 1 if we have sufficient cognitive access to the range of goods an omniscient being could perceive, which we demonstrably lack.
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A contemporary philosopher who defends religious belief by arguing that we shouldn't expect to understand all of God's reasons for allowing suffering.
the problem of evil(Contemporary philosophical terminology)
The family of issues raised by the question of why pain, moral wickedness, and varieties of imperfection exist if a perfectly good and all-powerful God alone created everything in the universe.