The Problem of Evil

…Is god willing to prevent evil, but not able to?  Then he is not omnipotent. …Is he able, but not willing?  Then he is malevolent. …Is he both willing and able?  Then whence cometh evil?  Then why call him god? ~ Epicurus (341-271 B.C.E.) ~ I couldn’t have said it better myself.  There have been many others who proposed their own formulation, and there may have been some who said it earlier, but none have said it better than old Epicurus.  Epicurus and other like-minded philosophers have bedeviled Christian, Islamic and Jewish thinkers for millennia.   First a short sidebar on Epicurus:   Epicurus was a Greek philosopher in the image...