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Original title (posted 10-12-06):\u00a0Alvin Plantinga\u2019s Decisive Refutation of the Atheist Use of the Problem of Evil\u00a0as a Disproof of God\u2019s Existence, Goodness, or Omnipotence Lenin and Stalin: two of the most evil people who ever lived.\u00a0Is God to be blamed for their wicked antics? [public domain \/ Wikimedia Commons] * * * Alvin Plantinga\u00a0(who was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2331,"featured_media":4491,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[983,1428,1426,1427,261,174],"class_list":["post-4490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-philosophy-science","tag-alvin-plantinga","tag-goodness-of-god","tag-logical-problem-of-evil","tag-omnibenevolence","tag-omnipotence","tag-problem-of-evil"],"yoast_head":"\n
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