Justin P. McBrayer: The Problem of Evil and Skeptical Theism (Royal Institute of Philosophy)

This talk was presented as part of the Royal Institute of Philosophy's 2015 conference on religious epistemology.
The problem of evil is the problem of reconciling the existence of a perfect God with the existence of horrible things in the world. Many take this problem as a convincing reason to be an atheist. But others think that the problem can be solved. One prominent solution is called ‘sceptical theism’. A sceptical theist is someone who believes in God but thinks that the problem of evil is not a real problem since humans are unable to see whether the horrible things in our world are truly pointless or else serve some greater purpose.
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