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    It is not the case that The existence of evil provides no basis for inferring the existence of an infinitely powerful and good God

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.The enormous degree and vast range of evil in this world cannot be explained or justified from a human perspective
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    • 2.Evidence that casts considerable doubt on a hypothesis undermines any inference to that hypothesis
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    • 3.The reality of evil constitutes contrary evidence against the claim that an infinitely powerful and good being created and governs the world
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.An infinite being's evaluative framework necessarily transcends finite human moral intuitions about what counts as 'evil' (Aquinas, ST I.25).
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    • 2.What appears as irredeemable evil from a temporally limited perspective may constitute necessary conditions for higher-order goods inaccessible to human cognition.
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    • 3.Therefore, the human inference from observed suffering to divine absence or malevolence commits a category error by applying finite standards to an infinite being.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Alston's 'skeptical theism' establishes that humans are systematically poor judges of whether God would have sufficient reasons to permit specific evils (Alston 1991).
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    • 2.An inference against God's existence from evil is only valid if we can reliably enumerate all possible justifying reasons an omniscient being could possess.
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    • 3.Our epistemic limitations render the evidential inference from evil to no-God not just weak but methodologically illegitimate as a probabilistic argument.
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