powerfully formulate the problem of evil as an argument against the existence of God? 1. Aquinas, in the Summa, comes the closest to capturing the intuitive, preargumentative point of the problem of evil in a logical formulation: If one of two contraries is infinite, the other is completely destroyed. But “God” means infinite goodness. If, therefore, God existed, there would be no evil discoverable in the world. But there is evil. Therefore God does not exist. (Summa Theologiae I, 2, 3, obj. I) 2.