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    The failure of an omnipotent and omniscient being to prev... — Carmelics
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    The failure of an omnipotent and omniscient being to prevent various evils in this world cannot be morally wrong.

    Problem of Evil
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    • 1.It is impossible for an omnipotent and omniscient being to perform a morally wrong action.
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    • 2.The failure to prevent evils would be an action of such a being.
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    • 1.Omnipotence and omniscience do not logically entail moral perfection, as power and knowledge are distinct properties from goodness.
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    • 2.A being can possess maximal causal and epistemic capacities while remaining morally neutral or even culpable for failures to act.
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    • 3.Rowe's evidential argument demonstrates that gratuitous suffering constitutes prima facie evidence of moral failing regardless of the agent's power.
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    • 1.The supporting argument commits a modal fallacy: necessary goodness would preclude wrong action, but that attribute must be established independently, not derived from omnipotence.
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    • 2.If omnipotence logically guaranteed moral rectitude, the Euthyphro dilemma would dissolve trivially, yet Plato's dialogue shows this inference is invalid.
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    Is the situation different if one shifts to a deity who is not omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect? The answer depends on the details. Thus, if one considers a deity who is omniscient and morally perfect, but not omnipotent, then evil presumably would not pose a problem if such a deity were conceived of as too remote from Earth to prevent the evils we find here. But given a deity who falls considerably short of omnipotence, omniscience, and moral perfection, but who could intervene in our world to prevent many evils, and who knows of those evils, it would seem that an argument rathe...

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