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    Challenges→If one is defending a probabilistic version of the argument from evil, one needs to consider what sorts of positive reasons might be offered in support of the existence of God.

    Therefore, most classical theistic proofs are evidentially irrelevant to offsetting the probabilistic argument from evil because they do not target the right set of divine properties.

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    • 1.The probabilistic argument from evil targets omnipotence, omniscience, and omnibenevolence specifically as a unified bundle.
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    • 2.Classical theistic proofs (cosmological, ontological, teleological) establish only a first cause or necessary being, not benevolence.
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    • 3.Proving God exists tells us nothing about whether that God has the specific moral character the evil argument challenges.
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    • 1.If God's existence is established, rational inference can extend to divine properties; omnipotent creators plausibly possess moral perfection.
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    • 2.The argument conflates epistemic irrelevance with practical irrelevance; theistic proofs strengthen overall case for classical theism.
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    • 3.Defenders can supplement classical proofs with theodicies that directly address evil while relying on proven divine existence as foundation.
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    Key Terms

    Classical theistic proofs(as used in philosophy of religion)
    Famous arguments that philosophers created to try to prove that God exists, developed mainly in Europe from the medieval period onward.
    Divine properties(as used in theology and philosophy of religion)
    The characteristics or qualities that God is believed to have, such as being all-powerful, all-knowing, or perfectly good.
    Evidentially irrelevant(as used in epistemology (the study of knowledge))
    Something that doesn't actually matter or have any bearing on whether something is true or false; it doesn't count as evidence either for or against a claim.
    Offsetting(as used in argumentation)
    Counteracting or balancing out something; in this context, it means providing reasons that could weaken or answer an objection.
    Probabilistic argument from evil(as used in philosophy of religion)
    A philosophical argument that uses the amount of suffering and evil in the world to suggest it's unlikely that an all-powerful, all-knowing, perfectly good God exists.

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