ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book presents the argument from evil against the existence of God, and as well some issues of religion and evil. It includes the most promising evidential argument from evil to be one that involves plausible equiprobability principles, and the associated idea of logical probability, to show that the evils found in the world make it unlikely that God exists. The book reviews Jesus's teachings about evil and passages in which Jesus was a victim of evil and considers the possibility that Jesus himself perpetrated evil, which counts against the Christian conception of Jesus as morally perfect. It argues that horrendous evils, far from being a problem for the theist, ought to convince us that God exists. The book investigates how Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection affects the problem of evil.
