The Evidential Argument from Evil

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Is evil evidence against the existence of God? Even if God and evil arecompatible, it remains hotly contested whether evil renders belief in Godunreasonable. The Evidential Argument from Evil presents five classic statements onthis issue by eminent philosophers and theologians and places them in dialogue witheleven original essays reflecting new thinking by these and other scholars. Thevolume focuses on two versions of the argument. The first affirms that there is noreason for God to permit either certain specific horrors or the variety andprofusion of undeserved suffering. The second asserts that pleasure and pain, giventheir biological role, are better explained by hypotheses other thantheism.Contributors include William P. Alston, Paul Draper, Richard M. Gale, Daniel Howard-Snyder, Alvin Plantinga, William L. Rowe, BruceRussell, Eleonore Stump, Richard G. Swinburne, Peter van Inwagen, and Stephen JohnWykstra.