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Richard Swinburne's "The Problem of Evil": God's Existence


Philosophers have looked for ways to explain God's existence for centuries.
One such argment that the believer must justify in order to maintain the
possibility of God's existence is the problem of evil. In his essay, "The
Problem of Evil," by Richard Swinburne, the author attempts to explain how evil
can exist in a world created by an omniscient, omnipotent, omnibenevolent Being,
namely God. Swinburne uses to free-will defense and says that God gave us a
choice between doing good and doing evil. If someone chooses to do good over
evil, then that Good is greater than if one had no choice at all but to do good.
This is a weak argument and in order to clarify those weaknesses one can look
at Steven M. Cahn's essay entitled "Cacodaemony." This essay parallels
Swineburne's, but states that an omniscient, omnipotent, omnimalevolent Demon
created the world. By looking at how weak the argument for cacodaemony is, one......

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