parameters, and better, on those parameters, than any that God could have actualized without the evils. Assumptions (ii) and (iii), of course, must also be numbered among the assumptions of BPW theodicies. These ethical assumptions are controversial, but Plantinga’s contribution is mainly focused on the more metaphysical issues involved in defending the claim that he regards as ‘really characteristic and central to the Free Will Defence … that God, though omnipotent, could not have created just any