Since the dawn of time, philosophy students have prefaced their papers on the problem of evil with “Since the dawn of time. . .”, before going on to explain what the problem is and why it’s so intractable. The problem—in a nutshell—is one of explaining why God, if there is a God, would allow the kinds, distributions, and intensities of evils we observe …
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