God, Evil, and Alvin Plantinga on the Free-Will Defense

Natural Evil and the Free Will Defense

Recently Richard Swinburne has argued that the well-known Free Will Defense can provide an explanation of God's permitting moral evil (i.e., evil intentionally brought about by human agents) only if there is also natural evil (i.e., evil not intentionally brought about by human agents). 1 Ultimately his argument aims to show that there must be natural evil if we are to have the knowledge we nee...

Transworld Depravity and Unobtainable Worlds

The free will defense attempts to show that the existence of God is logically compatible with the existence of evil, and it received its most sophisticated development in the work of Alvin Plantinga (1974). Many philosophers believe that Plantinga’s free will defense conclusively demonstrates the logical compatibility of God and evil. Philosophers such as W. Alston, R. Adams, and W. Rowe have w...

Plantinga and the Logical Problem of Evil

Free will and the problem of evil

According to the free-will defence, the exercise of free will by creatures is of such value that God is willing to allow the existence of evil which comes from the misuse of free will. A well-known objection holds that the exercise of free will is compatible with determinism and thus, if God exists, God could have predetermined exactly how the will would be exercised; God could even have predet...

allamma tabatabaee and alvin plantinga on the basic proposition “god exists”

belief in the existence of god has always been attacked by opponents. one of them is the so called evidentalism challenge. in this paper, the opinions of allama muhammad hussain tabataba, and alvin plantinga about the above mentioned challenge are discussed and compared. although both believe that belief in god does’nt need to be proved and arguments just support the faith but, belonging to a t...