ABSTRACT
Gottfried Leibniz famously defended the theses that there is a best possible world and that a perfect being cannot fail to choose the best.1 These two theses led Leibniz to the conclusion that God actualized the best possible world. Many theists have since found that conclusion diffi cult to defend. The conclusion entails the incredible claim that the actual world, with all of its evil, is as good as any other logically possible world.
