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The free will defense argues as follows (where "T" is a possible theodicy -- like "Evil results from the abuse of creaturely free will and could be eliminated only by taking away this free will -- which would result in a less-good universe"):

    "There's an all-good and all-powerful God" is consistent with T.
    T entails that there's evil in the world.
    So "There's an all-good and all-powerful God" is consistent with "There's evil in the world."

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1 is correct!

The free will defense argues as follows (where "T" is a possible theodicy -- like "Evil results from the abuse of creaturely free will and could be eliminated only by taking away this free will -- which would result in a less-good universe"):

    "There's an all-good and all-powerful God" is consistent with T.
    T entails that there's evil in the world.
    So "There's an all-good and all-powerful God" is consistent with "There's evil in the world."

To argue this way, we needn't hold that T is true or even plausible. We only have to claim that T is consistent with the existence of God and entails the existence of evil.

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2 is wrong. Please try again.

The free will defense argues as follows (where "T" is a possible theodicy -- like "Evil results from the abuse of creaturely free will and could be eliminated only by taking away this free will -- which would result in a less-good universe"):

    "There's an all-good and all-powerful God" is consistent with T.
    T entails that there's evil in the world.
    So "There's an all-good and all-powerful God" is consistent with "There's evil in the world."

This is how the free will defense goes.

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