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THE PROBLEM OF EVIL AND THE POVERTY OF THE FREE WILL THEODICY

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2009

Brian Vroman
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The Problem of Evil, as it is typically called, is the strongest argument against the existence of a Deity who is at once all-powerful, all-knowing, kind and loving, and whose reach extends everywhere. Simply stated, the existence of such a being is incompatible with the existence of evil and suffering in the world. We know that evil and suffering exist; thus a Deity such as that described above cannot exist.

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Research Article
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Think , Volume 8 , Issue 22 , Summer 2009 , pp. 65 - 73
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 2009

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1 Dostoevsky, Fyodor, The Karamazov Brothers, translated by Avsey, Ignat, (New York, Oxford, 1998), pp. 303-308Google Scholar.

2 Mackie, John Leslie, The Miracle of Theism: Arguments for and Against the Existence of God, (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1982), pp. 154-166Google Scholar.

3 Richard Preston, The New Yorker, Vol. 83 Issue 23, pp. 30-36.