God?
...any arguments retorting to this, but two stand out. First, God created the best possible world. Evil plays an important roll in our world, the world is better off with some evil that it could be with no evil. Second, moral evil on our planet is due to human free will. Since God gave us freedom, which is a necessity of a perfect world, it is the fault of humans that moral evil exists. It is the combination of these two arguments that prove god and evil can coexist. In disproving the validity of the “problem of evil”, we only need to prove the possibility that god could coexist with evil. We should also note that there are two different types of evil; natural evil which includes natural disasters, and moral evil which involves humans causing pain and suffering upon other humans. If we are to agree that God, by nature created the best possible world, we must consider the natural laws that are abided by in order to create the world we live in. God could not eliminate evil without at the same time rendering it impossible to accomplish other goals that are important. For example, natural disasters are necessary for sustaining the living conditions of earth. Earthquakes, (presumably naturally evil), cause a lot of pain and suffering. However, the earth needs earthquakes in order to keep the continents from eroding into the ocean. If this did not occur then we would not be here to discuss it. Again, this does not need to be true, it only needs to be feasible or possible. Another example of a natural disaster is a flood. Floods cause many human deaths worldwide yet, it is the result of these floods that can fertilize our soils and produce much food, sustaining life. In order to create the perfect Earth, God was correct in creating natural disasters, and in turn “natural evil”. Similarly, in order to create the perfect world God was correct in giving humans free will. This is because a world with free will is better than one without it. It would be a contradiction to say humans have free will if God enforced that free will to be good. Also, God must bring about the best possible world he is able to bring about. Therefore, God mu...