ABSTRACT
This chapter considers two instances of evil: a small girl assaulted and strangled in Michigan, and another in which a fawn's painful death due to being horribly burned in a forest fire occasioned by lightning. Theists believe that God exists and is justified in permitting in both evils. Plantinga believes that there is something dreadfully wrong with the author's argument from P to it being more likely than not that God does not exist. He thinks that the author's efforts to persuade the theist that P is true are doomed to failure. Plantinga also thinks there are other arguments that counterbalance the author's argument from P. Third, he thinks the author's argument from P is what he calls “an argument from degenerative evidence.” The chapter presents the author's reply to Plantinga's objections.
