Natural evil, logical, evidential problem of evil

what does Hume say about natural evil?

nature is made in a way that causes evil

how is nature is made in a way that causes evil

Animals endure hunger, pain and fear to survive despite not being necessary, which suggests suffering is built into the natural order

who tells the story of a fawn in a forest fire that takes days to die in pain, to explain the pointlessness of evil?

Rowe

what does gratuitous mean?

no reason

who says about children dying in history independently of human choice?

Gregory S.Paul

what blurrs the line between natural and moral evil?

climate change as it’s natural but is driven by humans

what is a classical God of Theism?

The Christian God who is omnipotent and omnibenevolent

what type of God should be able to stop moral evil?

classical theism God

who was epicurus?

ancient Greek philosopher

what did epicurus ask about God and moral evil?

why doesnt he stop it?

who developed epicurus’ question?

Mackie

What is the inconsistent triad?

God or evil exist, we know evil does exist so God either doesn’t or he isn’t omnipotent or isn’t omnibenevolent, so he can't be a classical God

what type of arguement is mackie’s triad?

deductive as it uses aposteriori knowledge to deduce to an answer

who made the evidential problem of evil?

Davide Hume

why could evil be allowed by God?

for a reason we don’t understand

what does hume say about God letting evil happen for a reason?

the evidence denies this being true

what would not believing in the triad require? why doesn’t this work?

the co-existences to be necessarily contradictory, this doesn’t work as there is no counter example to the triad not working

what’s the 1st evidential problem of evil?

we can only believe what evidence justifies, we only have evidence of imperfection, so we can justify belief in imperfection, so we can’t believe in a perfect being, this means the classical God isn’t real: we can’t deduce a perfect God from an imperfect world

what’s the 2nd evidence?

Rowe says: evil is active evidence against God and not just blocking the idea of concluding to a God, forest fire deer is an example of gratuitous evil, according to empiricism if it looks like it then it is, this means classical God isn’t real