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Philosophy of religion

the response to the problem of evil that humans cannot expect to see God's reasons, so apparently pointless suffering is not good evidence against God.

In philosophy of religion, skeptical theism refers to the response to the problem of evil that humans cannot expect to see God's reasons, so apparently pointless suffering is not good evidence against God. This meaning comes from Wykstra (1984) in International Journal for Philosophy of Religion.[1]

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  1. Wykstra, S. J. (1984). The humean obstacle to evidential arguments from suffering: On avoiding the evils of ‘appearance’. International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 16(2), 73-93. https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00136567

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