Solving the Problem of Evil

In this video we discuss William Rowe's version of the evidential problem of evil, from "The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism," American Philosophical Quarterly 16 (1979). We examine the ways that we might present theodicies for the multitudinous instances of suffering we observe in the world, dividing them into Moral and Natural, and then providing the answers of the Free Will Defense and the Theodicy from the Consistency of the World, respectively.

Related Materials:
My Lectures:
Aquinas' statement of the problem of evil, and his reply: https://youtu.be/x4bmn5tgxzI
The different versions of the problem of evil, including Rowe's: https://youtu.be/53JZCQBXoWY
Aquinas' Five Ways of demonstrating the existence of God: https://youtu.be/ECDONP7lYhU
External Resources:
John Hick's theodicy from "soul-making": Pp. 253-261 from Evil and the God of Love, revised edition, by John Hick. Copyright 1996, 1977 by John Hick.
Alvin Plantinga's Free Will Defense, see: God, Freedom, and Evil, by Alvin Plantinga (Harper & Row, 1974).
Apologist Trent Horn debates atheist Cosmic Skeptic (Alex O'Connor) on this version of the problem of evil, among other topics: https://youtu.be/5PF1JgXOKDQ