Is evil evidence against the existence of God? Does divine hiddenness provide an evidential problem for theism? Is our evolutionary history evidence that God doesn't exist? Skeptical theism is the view that humans are cognitively limited in important ways that prevent us from providing affirmative answers to these evidential questions. In this bookthe first monograph published on skeptical theismPerry Hendricks gives careful, novel, and compelling arguments in favor of skeptical theism and provides a comprehensive defense of it, addressing all major objections to skeptical theism on offer. The implications of skeptical theism are teased out: it undermines the most prominent arguments for atheism on offer, which significantly lowers the epistemic status of atheism.

Discusses the problem of evil, evolution, and divine hiddenness Discusses and defends skeptical theism and how it undermines the popular arguments against God's existence Argues that belief in God is not irrational despite all of the evil and suffering found in the world

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Perry Hendricks is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota, Morris. He has published numerous articles in such journals as: Analysis, American Philosophical Quarterly, Ergo, The Journal of the American Philosophical Association, and Pacific Philosophical Quarterly.

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Axiological Skeptical Theism Proved.- 3. Deontological Skeptical Theism Proved.- 4. Skeptical Theism and The Problems of Evil.- 5. Skeptical Theism and Other Arguments for Atheism.- 6. Skeptical Theism Defeated?.- 7. Faithful Skeptical Theism.- 8. Theodicy and Natural Theology.- 9. Commonsense Problems of Evil.