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	Logical Argument from Evil
		evidential arguments from evil merely claim that some known fact about evil is evidence for God's nonexistence.) Ever since Alvin Plantinga refuted J.L. Mackie's logical argument from evil, the majority of contemporary philosophers of religion have come to believe that logical arguments from evil are unsuccessful.
		If evil is merely the harbinger of greater good, why should we be opposed to its occurrence, and why, indeed, should we be expected to prevent it?" Stretton's argument from evil is classified as a logical argument from evil since it claims that God's existence is logically incompatible with certain actual instances of evil.
		Moreover, he argues that the kind of omnipotence and omniscience that theists ascribe to God is incoherent, and defends both evidential and logical arguments from evil against the existence of God.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/nontheism/atheism/evil-logical.html (609 words)

	ipedia.com: Logical and evidential arguments from evil Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Logical arguments from evil seek to show that God 's existence is logically incompatible with the existence of evil.
		Logical arguments from evil seek to show that God's existence is logically incompatible with the existence of (certain) evil.
		Evidential arguments from evil don't allege that God and such evil cannot coexist.
	www.ipedia.com /logical_and_evidential_arguments_from_evil.html (472 words)

	The Evidential/Inductive Problem of Evil
		Unlike the deductive problem of evil, evidential formulations of the problem of evil do not argue that the existence of any kind of evil is logically incompatible with the existence of a perfectly good and all-powerful God.
		Arguments based on the quantity of evil would be decisive if the sum of all evils were manifest all at once.
		A second problem with quantity arguments from evil, is that they assume we can somehow measure the amount of evil in the world and more incredibly that we are in the proper position to say what is the appropriate quantity of evil in the world.
	apologetics.johndepoe.com /evidentialevil.html (2361 words)

	The Problem of Evil: Evidential Arguments from Evil
		Unlike the logical argument from evil, which holds that the existence of God (so defined) is logically incompatible with some known fact about evil, the evidential (or probabilistic) argument from evil contends that some known fact about evil is evidence against the existence of God.
		Tattersall defends a version of the evidential argument from evil that is based upon the probable existence of gratuitous evil.
		The 'Inductive' Argument From Evil: A Dialogue (1988) by Bruce Russell and Stephen Wykstra
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/nontheism/atheism/evil.html (1991 words)

	The Evidential Problem of Evil [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
		The evidential problem of evil is the problem of determining whether and (if so) to what extent the existence of evil (or certain instances, kinds, quantities, or distributions of evil) constitutes evidence against the existence of God, that is to say, a being perfect in power, knowledge and goodness.
		Evidential arguments from evil attempt to show that, once we put aside any evidence there might be in support of the existence of God, it becomes unlikely, if not highly unlikely, that the world was created and is governed by an omnipotent, omniscient, and wholly good being.
		Such arguments are not to be confused with logical arguments from evil, which have the more ambitious aim of showing that, in a world in which there is evil, it is logically impossible — and not just unlikely — that God exists.
	www.iep.utm.edu /e/evil-evi.htm (12191 words)

	What's New on the Secular Web
		Thus, Smith's argument may be reasonably classified as a logical argument from moral nihilism to atheism.
		The old "Arguments from Evil" subject index has been reorganized into three pages: "Evidential Arguments from Evil" (replaces the index), "Logical Arguments from Evil" (a new index), and "Reviews of Books about Arguments from Evil" (another new index).
		Added "The Kalam Cosmological Argument as Amended: The Question of the Metaphysical Possibility of an Infinite Temporal Series of Finite Duration" by Arnold T. Guminski to the Modern Documents section of the Library.
	www.infidels.org /secular_web/new/2004/november2004.shtml (1584 words)

	Parableman: November 2006 Archives
		The last post presented the evidential problem of evil, including five questions that deal with specific kinds or manifestations of evil thought by some to be evidence against the existence of God.
		The primary response to the logical problem of evil involves free actions of human beings.
		The last post looked at the logical problem of evil, which seeks to show a contradiction between the existence of God and the existence of evil.
	parablemania.ektopos.com /archives/2006/11 (3735 words)

	Tragedy at Virginia Tech: Evil, Forgiveness, and Healing
		In this overview of the problem of evil, Rood examines both the arguments against God's existence based on evil, and also the existential problem of living with suffering.
		He summarizes the logical problem of evil, the evidential argument from evil, and then examines Scripture on how to deal with suffering.
		A standard formulation of the logical argument is considered, as well as an "agapeistic" formulation of the argument.
	www.leaderu.com /focus/schoolviolence.html (1639 words)

	Ebon Musings: The Atheism Pages
		The problem of evil - the question of why pain and suffering exist in a world supposedly ruled by a morally good god - is the oldest and most enduring argument against many varieties of theism.
		This essay presents a concise formulation of the problem from evil and argues that theists have failed to provide a satisfactory answer to it.
		This essay presents a formulation of this quandary, which is known as the problem of divine hiddenness, and argues that the most probable answer is because he does not exist.
	www.ebonmusings.org /atheism (1210 words)

	Parableman: Theories of Knowledge and Reality Series
		No-Evidence Arguments: Some Final Thoughts Arguments for the Existence of God 18.
		Near the turn of the last centry on of the great mathemeticians of the past, Emmy Noether, proved a general theorem that showed that any general physical system which has a continuous symmetry also has a related conservation law.
		I'm doing a series at my own blog based on the content of an intro to philosophy course that I teach from time to time called Theories of Knowledge and Reality.
	parablemania.ektopos.com /archives/2005/07/theories_of_kno_1.html (344 words)

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