Broken idealsModus Tollens (denying the consequent).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modus_tollens
In this case,
P is "God exists" and
Q is "there is no evil in the world".
1. God exists
2. God is omnipotent, omniscient, and perfectly good
3. A perfectly good being would want to prevent all evils
4. An omniscient being knows every way in
which evils can come into existence
5. An omnipotent being who knows every way in which
an evil can come into existence has the power to
prevent that evil from coming into existence
6. A being who knows every way in which an evil
can come into existence, who is able to prevent
that evil from coming into existence,
and who wants to do so,
would prevent the existence of that evil
7. If there exists an omnipotent, omniscient,
and perfectly good being, then no evil exists.
8. Chose one answer
a)Evil exists (logical contradiction)
b)God is a politically correct jerk. (politically incorrect)
God himself came down from heaven and
died to redeem mankind and extirpate sin forever
from the face of the earth;
and yet he left the greater part of mankind a prey to error,
to crime, and to the devil.
This, to our weak intellects, appears a fatal contradiction.
But it is not for us to question Providence;
our duty is to humble ourselves in the dust before it.
Voltaire
