American philosopher who developed the evidential problem of evil — the probability argument from evil against theism — and wrote a widely used textbook in philosophy of religion.
The evidential problem of evil: there exist evils (pointless suffering of animals, gratuitous human suffering) for which we can conceive of no sufficient justifying reason — this makes theism unlikely. Distinguished from the logical problem of evil (Mackie).
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