ABSTRACT
Many people have detected an inconsistency in holding that there exists an omnipotent, omniscient and good God and that evil exists. While there seems to be no contradiction between theistic belief and the facts of evil, evils could still be too great or otherwise unacceptable for God's existence to be probable or for belief in God to be reasonable. 'A world containing significantly free persons making choices between moral good and evil and choosing a significant amount of moral good is superior to a world lacking significantly free persons and moral good and evil.' If the existence of actual, existing life-forms was among God's values or goals, then there was no other way; a good creator would create a world of natural selection after all. Indeed Darwinism 'may even make the solution' to the problem of natural evil 'easier to grasp'.
