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justifiable reason at all for an all-good God to permit it. (2)


An obvious problem with the UPD : if you have no idea what reason God has for allowing evil, then for all you know there is no (1)


The unknown purpose defence: God allows apparently pointless suffering for some reason that we can't comprehend.


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Surprisingly, "sensus divinitatis" seems to respect geographical boundaries.


Blindly stating that there is no evidence in favour of theism is a very myopic approach.


(4) It would undercut any reason we have to believe in God based on perceived beauty in the world.


(3) Sehon's conclusion is that even if skeptical theism were true & did not land us in moral paralysis...


(2) Sehon challenges this kind of reasoning in his paper 'The Problem of Evil: Skeptical Theism Leads to Moral Paralysis'.


(1) Wykstra has argued that in all cases, good obtains from evil. However, the "good" is beyond man's ken.


One response to the evidential problem of evil tends to take the form of skeptical theism.


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