Does God Exist?

Every year, the Institute of Art and Ideas organises HowTheLightGetsIn, the world’s largest philosophy and music festival.  This year’s festival happens from the 21st-31st May in Hay, and the theme for 2015 is ‘Fantasy and Reality.’  How much of what we take to be reality is a fantasy of our own making? And which of our current fantasies should become the realities of the future?  In this piece Stephen Law explores the problem of evil ahead of his talk at the festival in The Evil God Challenge.
 
Welcome to Eth, a small planet circling a medium sized star on the far side of this galaxy. It's standing room only in Eth's Great Chamber as the debate of the age is about to take place. Eth's greatest intellectuals are trying finally to settle whether or not God exists.
 Garglefroth Blart, Professor Emeritus of Divinity at Eth's most prestigious university, is involved in vigorous debate with his opponent, Bogubus Donk, the Arch Logos Inquisitor. The audience comprises Eth's finest thinkers....