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God and Gratuitous Evil: A Reply to Yandell
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
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In his recent paper ‘Gratuitous Evil and Divine Existence’. Keith Yandell declares the deductive argument from evil solved. He notes, however, that what persists is a probabilistic version of the argument from evil, one concluding from the evidence of evil (gratuitous evil in particular) that it is ‘highly improbable’ that God exists. Yandell attempts to refute this probabilistic argument from gratuitous evil; as shown below, however, he fails.
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1 Yandell, , Keith, , ‘Gratuitous Evil and Divine Existence’, Religious Studies, xxv (1989), 15–30.CrossRefGoogle Scholar Page references in the text are to this paper.
2 Chrzan, , Keith, , ‘The Irrelevance of the No Best Possible World Defense’, Philosophia, xvii (1987), 161–7.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
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