Sceptical theism, the parent analogy, and many goods
William R. Rowe argues for the low probability of the existence of God given our ignorance of the goods that come from apparently gratuitous evils. After exploring this argument, I present Stephen Wykstra's response, which is known as ‘sceptical theism’, focusing on the evocation of the so-call...
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2023
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Religious studies
Year: 2023, Volume: 59, Issue: 4, Pages: 748-761 |
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