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The problem of evil and the paradox of friendly atheism

Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Year
1985
Tongue
English
Weight
540 KB
Volume
17
Category
Article
ISSN
0020-7047

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โœฆ Synopsis

From ancient times philosophers and theologians have debated the significance of suffering and other forms of evil for the belief that the world is the creation of a wholly good, omniscient, and omnipotent being -God. Briefly, two major positions on this question are possible: (1) that God and evil are incompatible, forcing us to reject either theism or the reality of evil 1 ; and (2) that God and evil are not incompatible, allowing the theist to recognize, while having to explain, the reality of evil. 2 Historically, atheists have tended to support the first position and theists the second, but, in an important article "The Problem of Evil and Some Varities of Atheism, ''3 William L. Rowe argues for the possibility of a form of atheism ("friendly atheism") which recognizes the logical compatibility of God and evil but holds that the great amount and variety of human and animal suffering makes it reasonable to be an atheist, though it neither disproves theism nor does it require the atheist to regard the theist as being irrational.

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