A modus tollens, also known as modus tollendo tollens, argument is the application of general logical truth that if a statement is true, then so is its contrapositive statement. Thus, confirming both are true.
Modus Tollendo Tollens Problem of Evil
- God exists.
- God is omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnibenevolent.
- An omnibelevolent being would want to prevent all evils.
- An omniscient being knows every way in which evils can come into existence, and knows every way in which those evils can be prevented.
- An omnipotent being has the power to prevent those evils from ever coming into existence.
- A being who knows every way in which all evils can come into existence, who is capable of preventing those evils from coming into existence, and who wants to prevent those evils from coming into existence, would prevent those evils from existing at all.
- If there exists an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnibenevolent God, then no evil exists.
- Evil exists.
- Therefore, an omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, and omnibenevolent God does not exist.
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