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The Evil God Challenge is a thought experiment. The challenge is to explain why an all-good god should be more likely than an all-evil god. Those who advance this "challenge" assert that, unless there is a satisfactory answer to the challenge, there is no reason to accept God is good or can provide moral guidance. ==Origin== Papers by Stephen Cahn,〔1976, Stephen Cahn, ''Cacodaemony'', Analysis 37 (1976).〕 Peter Millican,〔1989, Peter Millican, ‘''The Devil’s Advocate''’, first published in Cogito, http://www.millican.org/papers/1989DevAdv.pdf〕 Edward Stein〔1990, Edward Stein, American Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 27, No. 2 (Apr., 1990) , pp. 163-167, ''God, the Demon, and the Status of Theodicies'', http://www.jstor.org/stable/20014323〕 Christopher New,〔.〕 and Charles B Daniels,〔1997, Daniels, Charles B. (1997). "God, demon, good, evil", ''The Journal of Value Inquiry'', Vol. 31 (2), June, pp.177–181.〕 explored the notion of an 'anti-God'—an omnipotent, omniscient God who is all evil. The Evil God challenge was originally proposed by Iain King,〔2008, ''How to Make Good Decisions and Be Right All the Time'', ISBN 978-1-84706-347-2, pages 74 and 83.〕 and was developed at length and in several formats by the philosopher Stephen Law.〔2010, ‘''Evil God Challenge''’ in Journal of Religious Studies; and http://stephenlaw.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/evil-god-challenge.html. A 2014 youtube presentation by Law of the challenge is here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU54EYkap5Q〕 Supporting the greater likeliness of an omnimalevolent creator, in 2015, John Zande published an extended argument for the Evil God thesis (The Owner of All Infernal Names: An Introductory Treatise on the Existence, Nature and Government of Our Omnimalevolent Creator), arguing that the irresistible, self-complicating nature of this universe not only resolves the Problem of Good, but establishes unignorable teleological evidence for the wicked disposition of the Creator. Law noted this work to be an intriguing development in the theology of the Evil God. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Evil God Challenge」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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