THE ARGUMENT FROM EVIL: INDUCTIVE
VERSION
(1)
If God exists,
then He is omnipotent, omniscient, and all good.
(2)
There is a
tremendous amount of evil in the world, some of it not caused by human beings
and apparently gratuitous. [Here might follow a long description of natural
disasters, diseases afflicting the apparently innocent, and so on.]
(3)
It is unlikely
that such an amount and kind of evil would exist if there is an omnipotent,
omniscient, and all good being.
(4)
Probably, God
does not exist.