The Compatibility of God and Evil
Most people who’ve thought about whether God exists have also thought about how the presence of evil in the world bears on this question. Many have supposed that evil is incompatible with God’s existence, and since there’s obviously quite a lot of evil in the world, it follows that God doesn’t exist. Of course, the main premise in that argument is the incompatibility thesis. Why think that it’s true? The classic argument is something like this: God is supposed to be omnipoten