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CC017: Exploring the Contingency Argument with Dr. Josh Rasmussen (Part 4)

Capturing Christianity Podcast

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Is God's Existence Compatible With Pointless Evil?

Some christian philosophers like peter van inwagen and even michael mida. Michal mida has as an approach to the problem of evil that we actually posted on our webside recently, about how god couldn't create a world where there were no gratuitous evils. So it's not enough to have a disposition toward radical forgiveness. You've actually got to exemplify it. And maybe we could even make sense a little bit of what you mention in terms of gratuitous evils because there could be some amount of surprise and randomness built into the environment here. We could maybe appeal to sort of meter, a reason for having a world in which there could be evils with no reasons

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