The Evidential Argument from Evil (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion) - Hardcover

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ISBN 10: 0253329655 ISBN 13: 9780253329653

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 1996

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Is evil evidence against the existence of God? Even if God and evil are compatible, it remains hotly contested whether evil renders belief in God unreasonable. The 'Evidential Argument from Evil' places five classic statements on this issue by eminent philosophers and theologians in dialogue with eleven new essays, reflecting new thinking by these and other scholars. The volume focuses on two versions of the argument. The first affirms that there is no reason for God to permit certain specific horrors or the variety and profusion of undeserved suffering. The second asserts that the biological role of pleasure and pain shows that hypotheses other than theism better explain those phenomena.

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DANIEL HOWARD-SNYDER is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Seattle Pacific University.

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• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0253329655
• ISBN 13: 9780253329653
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 357
• Editor: Howard-Snyder Daniel