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    The existence of evil does not tell against God's existen... — Carmelics
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    The existence of evil does not tell against God's existence and goodness

    Problem of Evil
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    • 1.Humans lack the understanding needed to determine whether any evil in the world is unnecessary
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    • 2.For all humans know, all evil in the world is necessary evil
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    • 3.It is arrogant to question God's existence and goodness given human ignorance of the infinite complexities of creation
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    • 1.The epistemic humility argument proves too much: it would equally prevent us from inferring God's existence or goodness from any evidence.
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    • 2.If human cognitive limits bar negative inferences about God, they equally bar positive ones, rendering theistic belief itself unjustified.
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    • 3.Rowe's 1979 evidential argument shows that gratuitous evils like the suffering of Bambi establish a prima facie case no appeal to ignorance dissolves.
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    • 1.Mackie's logical argument establishes that omnipotence entails the ability to create beings who freely choose good, making moral evil unnecessary.
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    • 2.If God could instantiate a world with significantly less suffering without reducing creaturely freedom, actual suffering constitutes evidence against omnibenevolence.
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    Faced with this difficulty, Cleanthes insists that contrary to all that Philo and Demea have claimed, we must allow that there is more happiness than misery, more pleasure than pain, in this world. Failing this, “there is an end at once of all religion” (D, 10.28/199). Philo’s response is that this is a fatal concession. Not only will it be hard to prove that there is more happiness than misery in the world, much more than this is needed to vindicate God’s moral attributes. Unless all evil is es
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