The Free Will Defense and The Argument from Gratuitious Evil

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FD1

Free will is a HOG

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FD2

If free will is a HOG, then its logically impossible to eliminate every evil without eliminating an equal or greater good

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FD3

Therefore, it is logically impossible to eliminate every evil without eliminating an equal or greater good

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GE1

A perfectly good, omnipotent being eliminates every gratuitous evil

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GE2

If god exists, then god is perfectly good and omnipotent

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GE3

Therefore, if God exists, then god eliminates every gratuitous evil

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GE4

Therefore, if god exists, then there is no gratuitous evil

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GE5

There is gratuitous evil

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GE6

Therefore, God does not exist

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HOG

higher order good- a great good the existence of which logically requires certain evil

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omnipotence clarified

the ability to do anything that is logically possible