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A theistic inductive argument from evil?

Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1987
Tongue: English
Weight: 266 KB
Volume: 22
Category: Article
ISSN: 0020-7047
DOI: 10.1007/bf00135436

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✦ Synopsis

Atheists have attempted to argue that the existence of evil provides inductive evidence for the non existence of God. But could theists turn the tables on the atheists? Could there be an argument for the existence of God on the basis of evil in the world? Michael Peterson argues this thesis in Evil and the Christian God. 1 In this paper I will show that Peterson's argument is unsuccessful.

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