*What if the reason we cannot reconcile God with evil is simply that God’s reasons are beyond human understanding?*
Michael Tooley examines skeptical theism, challenging the claim that unknown goods could defeat the probabilistic argument from evil and asking whether unknown evils must be given equal weight.
0:00 Can Skeptical Theism Undermine the Argument From Evil?
1:06 Could Unknown Evils Cancel Unknown Goods?
3:44 Can We Assign Probabilities to What We Cannot Know?
5:24 Weighing Goods and Evils Beyond Our Understanding
7:20 Does Skeptical Theism Threaten Scientific Reasoning?
9:59 Is Skeptical Theism Circular?
11:54 Could an Afterlife Ultimately Justify All Suffering?
*Michael Tooley* is Emeritus Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the University of Colorado Boulder. He received a Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Research Award in 1998 for his book _Time, Tense, and Causation,_ and is the author of the new book _Causation: A Defense of a Non-Reductionist Approach_ (Oxford, 2026).
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