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If We Can’t Tell What Theism Predicts, We Can’t Tell Whether God Exists: Skeptical Theism and Bayesian Arguments from Evil [PDF]

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According to a simple Bayesian argument from evil, the evil we observe is less likely given theism than given atheism, and therefore lowers the probability of theism.
Climenhaga, Nevin
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Causal Connections, Logical Connections, and Skeptical Theism: There Is No Logical Problem of Evil

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In this paper, I consider Sterba’s recent criticism of skeptical theism in context of his argument from evil. I show that Sterba’s criticism of skeptical theism shares an undesirable trait with all past criticisms of skeptical theism: it fails.
Hendricks, Perry
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Skeptical Theism and the Scope of our Moral Horizons

open access: yes, 2019
Reconciling the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent God with the evil that exists in our world is one of the most enduring problems for the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Brandt, Jeremy
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The Problem of the Amount of Evil: Hell Worlds, Cosmic Horror Trips, and Skeptical Theism [PDF]

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It’s been argued that horrendous evil—evil that’s so terrible it makes the sufferer’s life seem like it lacks meaning—is a problem for theism. It’s been argued that gratuitous evil—evil that isn’t required to produce (a) greater good(s) or (b) whose ...
Hendricks, Perry
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On the consequences of skeptical theism

open access: yes, 2016
Arguments from evil claim that the existence and prevalence of pain and suffering count as evidence against the existence of God. Some arguers from evil stake that claim on the following sort of argument. Where ‘E’ represents any inscrutable evil(s), e.g.
Coley, Scott M
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How to Be a Friendly Skeptical Theist

open access: yes, 2013
In this paper Skeptical Theism is described, applied and defended. Furthermore, William Rowe’s position of Friendly Atheism is described and a version of Friendly Theism suggested.
Jonbäck, Francis,
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