The Logical and Evidential Problem of Evil

• Moral agents


  people who use free will in order to make a decision
• The logical problem of evil

  • epicurus
  • asks why an all loving and all powerful God not control evil?
• Solution 1

  deny that God is omnipotent
• Solution 1 in depth

  • proposed by A.N Whitehead, adopted by David Griffin
  • God didnt create the universe, it is independent of God
  • View known as Process Theology
• Solution 2

  Deny that God is omnibenevolent
• Solution 2 in depth

  • freud
  • based on quote from revelation "God...will wipe away every tear from their eyes"
  • this is wish fulfilment
  • even if something is a wish, it could still be true
• Solution 3

  deny evil exists
• solution 3 in depth

  • St Augustine of Hippo
  • privation of good
• The evidential problem of evil- the existence of evil in the world