God, Freedom, and Evil (Biblia.com)

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In his discussion of natural theology (arguments to prove the existence of God) and natural atheology (arguments for the falsehood of theistic belief) Alvin Plantinga focuses on two of the traditional arguments: the ontological argument as an example of natural theology, and the problem of evil as the most important representative of natural atheology. Plantinga’s volume is accessible to serious...

I said earlier that the Free Will Defender tries to find a proposition that is consistent with (1) God is omniscient, omnipotent, and wholly good and together with (1) entails that there is evil. According to the Free Will Defense, we must find this proposition somewhere in the above story. The heart of the Free Will Defense is the claim that it is possible that God could not have created a universe containing moral good (or as much moral good as this world contains) without creating one that also

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