claiming that a theodicy seeks to do too much.74 Defenses, they claim, are more modest in nature, in that they do not claim to know God’s reason(s) for allowing evil. All that’s required is something like a story, which, for all we know, might be true, and which seems to be a real possibility as to why God allows evil in the world.75 William Hasker, on the other hand, thinks this is misguided and suggests making a more nuanced distinction between a theodicy and defense, highlighting the strengths