ABSTRACT
Evidential arguments from evil can be formulated in several ways, a full exposition of which would lead into some quite technical waters. This chapter describes three different responses to such arguments. One involves the idea of a theodicy, while a second appeals instead to countervailing evidence in support of the existence of God, and a third employs the idea of morally significant states of affairs that lie outside our ken. An argument from evil is only relevant if it is claimed that the entity in question is morally good. The chapter considers formulations of the evidential argument from evil that involve each of the three approaches to inductive inference, starting with that of generalization from past instances. It explores how the idea of an equiprobability principle can be applied in the case of the argument from evil.
