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    It is not the case that Theism faces a large and significant unanswered problem

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    Reasons For

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    • 1.The reality of evil is possibly consistent with the existence of God, but this consistency is not sufficient to resolve the tension
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    • 2.Theism cannot explain or justify the enormous degree and vast range of evil from a human perspective
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    Reasons Against

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    Reason against 1 of 2
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    • 1.Rowe's evidential argument shows that gratuitous evils—suffering with no apparent justifying reason—actually exist, not merely possibly exist.
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    • 2.The existence of even one instance of gratuitous evil, such as a fawn dying in agony from a forest fire, is probabilistically incompatible with an omnibenevolent God.
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    • 3.Skeptical theist defenses require abandoning our epistemic access to moral facts, which undermines the very moral reasoning needed to affirm God's goodness.
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    Reason against 2 of 2
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    • 1.Dostoevsky's Ivan Karamazov establishes that no future harmony or divine purpose can retroactively justify the suffering of innocent children.
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    • 2.Soul-making theodicies (Hick) presuppose that epistemic and moral development justifies suffering, yet natural evils predate any rational agent capable of such development by millions of years.
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