Criticisms
The view some thinkers like John Hick had towards the problem of evil
The world is a testing ground for moral and spiritual growth.
Evil gives us the opportunity to choose good and build character.
Without evil, free will and true virtue wouldn’t be possible.
The country David Hume was born in
What is Scotland
The conclusion of the deductive argument
God doesn't exist
The conclusion of the Inductive argument
God Doesn't Exist
The Island that Epicurus was born on
What is the Island of Samos?
What did Maimonides argue about the problem of evil
Evil isn’t a real thing — it’s the lack of good, like darkness is the absence of light.
The country David Hume moved to
What is France
Name any premise of the Deductive argument to Why God Doesn't Exist
•If God exists, then God is omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect
•If God is omnipotent, then God has the power to eliminate all evil.
•If God is omniscient, then God knows when evil exists.
•If God is morally perfect, then God has the desire to eliminate all evil
•Evil exists
•If evil exists and God exists, then either God doesn't have the power to eliminate all evil, or doesn't know when evil exists, or doesn't have the desire to eliminate all evil.
Name any premise of the inductive argument of Why god doesn't exist
•There exist states of affairs in which animals die agonizing deaths in forest fires, or where children undergo lingering suffering and eventual death due to cancer, and that (a) are intrinsically bad or undesirable, and (b) are such that any omnipotent person has the power to prevent them without thereby either allowing an equal or greater evil, or preventing an equal or greater good
•For any state of affairs (that is actual), the existence of that state of affairs is not prevented by anyone.
•For any state of affairs, and any person, if the state of affairs is intrinsically bad, and the person has the power to prevent that state of affairs without thereby either allowing an equal or greater evil, or preventing an equal or greater good, but does not do so, then that person is not both omniscient and morally perfect.Therefore:
•There is no omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect person.
•If God exists, then he is an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect person.
The name of the school that Epicurus made that taught everyone including women and slaves.
What is The Garden?
The view ancient Stoics had on evil
What is “The only evil is thinking something is evil.”
The role that David Hume was reject from for being accused of being an atheist
What is a professor
The fifth premise of the deductive argument that God Doesn't exist argument
Evil exists
The second premise of the inductive argument that god doesnt exist
For any state of affairs (that is actual), the existence of that state of affairs is not prevented byanyone.
The year Epicurus was born in
What was 341 BCE?
The view Gottfried Leibniz had on the problem of evil
God chose to create the best possible world, even if it includes evil.
The name of the University David Hume studied
What is the University of Edinburgh
The first premise of the deductive argument that God Doesn't exist argument
•If God exists, then God is omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect
The last premise of the inductive argument that god doesnt exist
What is If God exists, then he is an omnipotent, omniscient, and morally perfect person.
The reason Epicurus died in 207 BCE
What were kidney problems?
The view Gottfried Leibniz had on the problem of evil and why god exists and his reasoning
Philosopher Gottfried Leibniz said:
God chose to create the best possible world, even if it includes evil.
His reasoning: God is perfect and always acts with a sufficient reason. Any world God creates must be the best overall — even if it seems flawed to us.
The name of the book David Hume wrote that was ignored by the public
What is The Treaties of Human Nature
The last premise of the deductive argument that God Doesn't exist
•If evil exists and God exists, then either God doesn't have the power to eliminate all evil, or doesn't know when evil exists, or doesn't have the desire to eliminate all evil.
The first premise of the inductive argument that god doesnt exist
There exist states of affairs in which animals die agonizing deaths in forest fires, or where childrenundergo lingering suffering and eventual death due to cancer, and that (a) are intrinsically bad orundesirable, and (b) are such that any omnipotent person has the power to prevent them withoutthereby either allowing an equal or greater evil, or preventing an equal or greater good
What were Epicurus' views on the existence of evil
if gods cant stop evil then they aren’t all-powerful. If they don’t stop evil they are not good, and if they canand want to, why won’t they?