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    It is not the case that Therefore, the claim that God made all things right is incompatible with the existence of natural evil regardless of human conduct.

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    • 1.Natural laws enabling stable causation and predictable consequences are themselves goods that justify some suffering costs.
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    • 2.We cannot determine that natural evil serves no divine purpose given our limited knowledge of God's long-term plans.
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    • 3.Soul-making theodicy: natural challenges enable virtue development impossible in a consequence-free world.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Natural evils like diseases and earthquakes cause suffering independent of human choices or moral failings.
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    • 2.An omnipotent God could have created a world with natural laws that don't produce suffering without limiting human freedom.
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    • 3.A perfectly good being would prevent pointless suffering when able to do so without sacrificing greater goods.
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