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    It is not the case that The evidential turn initiated by Rowe in 1979 did substantially center discussion on concrete cases like the fawn dying in a forest fire, falsifying the claim historically.

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    • 1.The problem of evil's concrete cases appeared in medieval and early modern sources (e.g., Leibniz, Hume) before Rowe's 1979 reformulation.
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    • 2.Rowe formalized existing intuitions about specific suffering rather than originating the use of cases; calling this an 'evidential turn' overstates novelty.
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    • 3.Discussion patterns depend on how one delimits the field; within certain traditions, concrete cases remained central throughout pre-1979 philosophy.
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    • 1.Rowe's 1979 paper on the problem of evil introduced concrete cases as primary evidence, shifting debate from abstract theodicy to empirical examples.
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    • 2.Pre-1979 theodicy literature predominantly used general principles rather than specific suffering instances as central argumentative focus.
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    • 3.Subsequent philosophy of religion scholarship demonstrably increased citation and analysis of particular cases following Rowe's evidential framework.
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