The persistent existence of such apparently pointless evils shifts the burden of proof decisively onto the theist, making the claim that evil is compatible with God epistemically unjustified.
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(Contrasted with purely descriptive scientific inquiry)
A normative enterprise that tells us how we ought to reason from evidence and how we ought to justify our beliefs, as distinct from merely describing how we do reason or justify beliefs
the problem of evil(Contemporary philosophical terminology)
The family of issues raised by the question of why pain, moral wickedness, and varieties of imperfection exist if a perfectly good and all-powerful God alone created everything in the universe.