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Paulo asked:

I've never heard anything but specious remarks about the problem of evil. Any Comment?

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My dictionary defines "specious" as "deceptive" or "inauthentic" although with a "pleasing
appearance." I wish you had given instances of these remarks you call "specious," I would have not
had to reply in a vacuum. Perhaps you mean only that replies to the question as to how evil is
consistent with an all good and all powerful god do not seem satisfactory to you; but neither have they
seemed so to many philosophers starting with David Hume.

Perhaps you should ask a more specific question.

Kenneth Stern