The Evidential Problem of Evil

• What type of argument is the evidential problem of evil?

  A posteriori
• What is the evidential problem of evil?

  Whether we should doubt the existence of God based on the extent and excess of evil
• What does J.S. Mill argue about the evidential problem of evil?

  Evidence does not point to an omnibenevolent creator but one who is sadistic and who behaves in all the ways that we condemn when we see them in human criminals
• What does Vardy say about Dostoevsky's response to the evidential problem of evil?

  It was the most effective attack on God ever produced
• What was Dostoevsky's response to the evidential problem of evil?

  The suffering of children could never be justified no matter the grounds
• What does William Rowe argue?

  It isn't a logical problem for both evil and God to exist, there could be occasions where it could be justified for the greater good. However there is evidence against the existence of God because of the amount, intensity and pointlessness of suffering in the world
• What is the natural evil evidence of the evidential problem of evil?

  While the fawn's death may be justified in some ways, there is no justification for the level of suffering over such a length of time
• What is the moral evil evidence of the evidential problem of evil?

  While the suffering of the child may be justifiable in principle, the sheer amount, intensity and pointlessness of the suffering experienced by Sue and children Iike her is strong evidence that no God exists