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Does the problem of evil disprove God's existence?
Title: Does the problem of evil disprove God's existence?
Category: Social Sciences / Philosophy
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Does the problem of evil disprove God's existence?
Philosophers have looked for ways to explain God's existence for centuries. One such
argment that the believer must justify in order to maintain the possibility of God's existence is the
problem of evil. In his essay, 'The Problem of Evil,' by Richard Swinburne, the author attempts to
explain how evil can exist in a world created by an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent
Being, namely God. Swinburne uses to free-will defense and says that God gave us …showed first 75 words of 2098 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2098 total…God or a Demon. Both arguments
have the same strength, as Cahn notes, and both are very weak arguments. If it seems unlikely
that an omniscient, omnipotent, omnimalevolent Demon created the world, then it is just as
unlikely that an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent being created the world. It is likely that
neither God nor the Demon exists, and the problem of evil and the problem of goodness wind up
supporting the position of the atheist.
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