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    The argument from evil operates at the evidential or logi... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The advocate of the argument from evil needs to be able to show that the ontological argument is unsound.

    The argument from evil operates at the evidential or logical level, requiring only that God's existence is improbable or impossible given evil.

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    • 1.Omnipotent beings can create any logically possible world, including ones without gratuitous suffering.
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    • 2.The quantity and intensity of evil in our world appears vastly disproportionate to any plausible greater good.
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    • 3.Empirical observation of evil's distribution (childhood disease, natural disasters) fits atheism better than theism.
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    • 1.We lack epistemic access to God's reasons; our inability to conceive justifications doesn't prove none exist.
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    • 2.Free will and natural law regularities may necessitate evil as logical byproducts, not divine choices.
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    • 3.The argument conflates improbability with impossibility; God's existence remains coherent despite evil's existence.
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