The Evidential Argument from EvilDaniel Howard-Snyder Is evil evidence against the existence of God? Even if God and evil are compatible, it remains hotly contested whether evil renders belief in God unreasonable. The Evidential Argument from Evil presents five classic statements on this issue by eminent philosophers and theologians and places them in dialogue with eleven original essays reflecting new thinking by these and other scholars. The volume focuses on two versions of the argument. The first affirms that there is no reason for God to permit either certain specific horrors or the variety and profusion of undeserved suffering. The second asserts that pleasure and pain, given their biological role, are better explained by hypotheses other than theism. |
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Contents
The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism | 1 |
An Evidential Problem for Theists | 12 |
RICHARD SWINBURNE | 30 |
Aquinas on the Sufferings of | 49 |
ALVIN PLANTINGA | 69 |
The Inductive Argument from Evil | 97 |
STEPHEN JOHN WYKSTRA | 126 |
PAUL DRAPER | 175 |
Some Difficulties in Theistic Treatments of Evil | 206 |
Reflections on the Chapters by Draper Russell and Gale | 219 |
On Being Evidentially Challenged | 244 |
A Second Look | 262 |
The Argument from Inscrutable Evil | 286 |
Some Temporarily Final Thoughts | 311 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY | 333 |
CONTRIBUTORS | 351 |