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Alvin Plantinga's response to this issue notes the moral value of free will. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this issue which was discussed by Pierre Bayle in his “Manichean” articles. A German thinker attempted to solve this issue by proposing the existence of compossible goods and argued for permission through the principle of sufficient reason.
ANSWER: the problem of evil [or the argument of evil; accept descriptions about the existence of evil in a world where God exists]
[10e] The problem of evil is a common argument used to advance this position. Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens are among the modern “four horsemen” of this position arguing against the existence of a supreme being.
ANSWER: atheism
[10m] This thinker began his discussion of the problem of evil by listing out examples of sufferings like war. Philo uses examples of suffering to undermine Cleanthes’s conception of God in this thinker’s Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
ANSWER: David Hume
<Philosophy, Omkar Marathe> | VAULT II Packet 04

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TournamentEditionMatchHeardPPBE %M %H %
VAULT II at Georgia Tech2026-01-24✓613.3367%67%0%
Triangle Cup2026-03-13✓316.67100%67%0%
VAULT II at Eden Prairie HS2026-03-13✓316.67100%33%33%
VAULT II at McGill2026-03-13✓412.50100%0%25%
VAULT II at UCSB2026-03-13✓520.00100%60%40%
VAULT II Northern UK2026-04-24✓310.00100%0%0%
VAULT II Southern UK2026-04-24✓415.00100%25%25%
VAULT II at Harvard2026-04-30✓415.00100%0%50%
VAULT II at MINT2026-06-19✓510.00100%0%0%
VAULT II Stanford Online2026-07-17✓820.00100%50%50%