Problem
a) Which do you find more plausible, the Augustinian or Irenaen view regarding the consistency of the existence of God and of evil and suffering? Justify your position.
b) How does Plantinga attempt to refute the claim that the existence of God is logically incompatible with the existence of evil? Does he succeed? How might a proponent of the Problem of Evil reply? Justify your answer.
c) Assess Tooley's attempt to argue that, although God and evil are not logically incompatible, the observation of evil lowers the probability of God's existence. Is Tooley giving a deductive, inductive, or abductive argument? Justify your answer.