No contemporary philosopher has shed more light on the topic before us than Alvin Platinga. He does so through two major contributions: examining the problem of evil and presenting the Free Will Defense theory. We will take them up in that order. Gottfried W. Leibnitz (1646–1716) considered that this world is the best of all possible worlds.76 He further suggested that an omnipotent God could have created any possible world. Platinga calls this latter idea, “Leibniz’s Lapse,”