ABSTRACT
Dan Howard-Snyder and Mike Bergmann think that the enormous amount of seemingly pointless, horrendous evil occurring daily in our world gives us no good reason at all to think it unlikely that God exists. This chapter presents the author's response to that argument. If human and animal life on earth were nothing more than a series of agonizing moments from birth to death, the position of Howard-Snyder and Bergmann would still require them to say that we cannot reasonably infer that it is even likely that God does not exist. The author believes that his theistic friends, when in light of the enormous proliferation of horrendous evil in this world, continue to insist that we are unjustified in concluding that it is unlikely that God exists. The author's argument is basically a “noconceiveum” argument, not a “noseeum” argument. We cannot even conceive of goods that may occur and would justify God in permitting the terrible evils that afflict our world.
