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From: planting@uwvax.UUCP (W. Harry Plantinga)
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Subject: Re: God and suffering
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Paul Zimmerman writes:
> Harry,
> 
> 	You work from certain assumptions about God's nature and the nature
> of the universe. You say it is only possible to eliminate evil if free will
> is also eliminated, and that God has deemed it ``better'' to keep free will.
> First of all, free will is far from a proven fact. . . .
> So this illusion of free will is an example of God's evil, not an argument
> against believing in it. . . . 

In order to rebut your supposed proof that God is evil, it is only
necessary that free will be possible, not actual.  Then your
"contradiction" fails.