Executive Briefing: The Insoluble Theological Paradox
Philosopher J.L. Mackie formulated the logical problem of evil: the triad of God’s omnipotence, God’s omnibenevolence, and the undeniable existence of gratuitous suffering are mutually contradictory.
1. Rowe’s Fawn in the Forest Fire
William Rowe’s evidential argument poses the tragic death of a fawn in an unwitnessed forest fire, demonstrating unnecessary natural suffering that serves no discernible greater human moral good.
2. References
- Mackie, J. L. (1955). Evil and Omnipotence. Mind, 64(254), 200–212.
- Rowe, W. L. (1979). The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism. American Philosophical Quarterly.