naa a22 4500 510753094 CHVBK 20180411083111.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130901xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11841-012-0326-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11841-012-0326-0 Johnson David Department of Philosophy, King's College, 133 N River St., 18711, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA aut A Refutation of Skeptical Theism [Elektronische Daten] [David Johnson] Skeptical theists argue that no seemingly unjustified evil (SUE) could ever lower the probability of God's existence at all. Why? Because God might have justifying reasons for allowing such evils (JuffREs) that are undetectable. However, skeptical theists are unclear regarding whether or not God's existence is relevant to the existence of JuffREs, and whether or not God's existence is relevant to their detectability. But I will argue that, no matter how the skeptical theist answers these questions, it is undeniable that the skeptical theist is wrong; SUEs lower the probability of God's existence. To establish this, I will consider the four scenarios regarding the relevance of God's existence to the existence and detectability of JuffREs, and show that in each—after we establish our initial probabilities, and then update them given the evidence of a SUE—the probability of God's existence drops. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2012 Skeptical theism nationallicence Atheism nationallicence Rowe nationallicence Wykstra nationallicence Problem of evil nationallicence Evidential problem of evil nationallicence Howard-Snyder nationallicence Bergmann nationallicence Trakakis nationallicence Bayes' theorem nationallicence Sophia Springer Netherlands 52/3(2013-09-01), 425-445 0038-1527 52:3<425 2013 52 11841 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-012-0326-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-012-0326-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Johnson David Department of Philosophy, King's College, 133 N River St., 18711, Wilkes-Barre, PA, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Sophia Springer Netherlands 52/3(2013-09-01), 425-445 0038-1527 52:3<425 2013 52 11841 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer