Preface Introduction: The Evidential Argument from Evil/Daniel Howard-Snyder The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism/William L. Rowe Pain and Pleasure: An Evidential Problem for Theists/Paul draper Some Major Strands of Theodicy/Richard G. Swinburne Aquinas on the Sufferings of Job/Eleonore Stump Epistemic Probability and Evil/Alvin Plantinga The Inductive Argument from evil and the Human Cognitive Condition/William P. Alston Rowe(R)s Noseeum Arguments from Evil/Stephen Wypkstra The Problem of Evil, the Problem of Air, and the Problem of Silence/Peter van Inwagen The Skeptical Theist/Paul Draper Defenseless/Bruce Russell Some Difficulties in Theistic Treatments of Evil/Richard Gale Reflections on the Essays of Draper, Russell, and Gale/Peter van Inwagen On being Evidentially Challenged/Alvin Plantinga The Evidential Argument from Evil: A Second Look/William L. Rowe The Argument from Inscrutable Evil/Daniel Howard-Snyder Some (Temporarily) Final Thoughts on Evidential ARguments from Evil/William P. Alston Bibliography Contributors Index