Doesn’t Explain Natural Evil
Summary
Criticism of the Free Will Defence is that it can only justify the existence of moral evil, evil brought about directly by human beings.
Unless one accepts some kind of doctrine of the Fall, whereby Adam and Eve’s betrayal of God’s trust is supposed to have brought all the different sorts of evil on the world.
However, such a doctrine would only be acceptable to someone who already believed in the existence of the Judaeo-Christian God.
There are other more plausible explanations of natural evil, one of which is that the regularity in the laws of nature has a great overall benefit which outweighs the occasional disasters that it gives rise to.
