Let's Argue: The Problem of Evil
We’ve been looking at several philosophical arguments for God’s existence. In other words, for what reason should we believe in God ? We’ve seen the Cosmological Argument (God is the best explanation for the cause of the universe) and the Moral Argument (God is the best explanation for the existence of objective moral values and duties) so far. Let’s instead ask this question: for what reason should we not believe in God? The Problem of Evil is perhaps the best philosophical argument the atheist can provide against God’s existence. Remember what we said about argumentation: a “good” argument is a series of statements, or premises, that lead to a conclusion. These premises must be logically sound (the conclusion follows the premises by the rules of logic), and its premises are true. Along with this, it must be shown that there is good reason to believe that what this argument is stating is true. Let’s take a look and see what it states: ...