1) Contrast, By having evil we can appreciate good
2) Greater goods are created through lessor evils.
Example: An earthquake ravages a city and many are left dead. People quickly move to help people through donations and volenteering. Without some lessor evils greater goods like mercy could not exist.
The argument from evil is fundamentally flawed because people pretend to know how an all knowing, obnipotent being would behave. How do we know that he would create a world without evil? The premise that a perfectly good being would try to elimenate evil is an assumption in this argument and it is a flawed assumption. Again i think the greater goods is one of the best examples of this. Disasters tend to bring the best out in people. Also as for evil in humans this is due to our freewill. Freewill in itself is a greater good but with it comes evils.
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