Jeff Schweitzer: Why Free Will, Prayer and an Omnipotent God Are Mutually Exclusive
Some who oppose the notion of a brutish ugly deity propose that god did not intentionally create evil. If so, that begs the question of evil’s origin if not from the hand of god. In one scenario, god allowed evil to flourish as an unintended consequence once his newly-minted Adam and Eve started roaming the earth; in another, evil sprang to life without god’s permission, as a rude cosmic surprise
