the contemporary philosopher of religion, william leonard rowe (1931-   ), with emphasis on gratuitous evil, has tried to show a new version of an evidential argument from evil against god. in this article we, first, try to show a detailed description and documentation of rowe’s views and, then, have some critical remarks on it. in describing his views, we try to reveal properly the evolution o...

In this paper, I propose a new response to a particular instance of the problem of evil: the problem of animal suffering. My solution, in brief, is that the rational theist may argue, justifiably, that an omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent God would not allow gratuitous animal suffering to occur, and, therefore, all instances of animal suffering that are encountered are not instanc...

Abstract Agnostics as well theists should answer evidential arguments from evil, at least when confronted with them. In this paper, I such an argument by appealing to sceptical agnosticism. A agnostic is not only undecided about the existence of a perfectly good and omnipotent God, but also believes that we cannot make any judgement whether or seemingly gratuitous evil probably gratuitous. argu...

According to The Evidentialist problem of Evil, the existence disproportionate, prima facie gratuitous evil and suffering in world is enough evidence against Omnipotent, Perfectly Loving, Omniscient God Classical Theism. A contemporary way dealing with this argument Skeptical Theism , for which very fact that there an huge amount looks us does not mean we can reasonably believe whether indeed o...

Abstract One can readily conceive of worlds horrendous, gratuitous suffering. Moreover, such seem possible. For classical theists, however, God, amongst other things, is perfectly good. So, the question arises: for theists are evil possible? Many have said no. This modal problem evil. Herein, I discuss a related problem: Lewisian theism. theism conjunction Lewis’s realism and theism, leading th...