Bringing About Perfect Worlds

This chapter shows that, (i) necessarily, God is able to actualize a morally and naturally perfect world, but (ii) it is _impossible_ that, necessarily, God _does_ actualize a morally and naturally perfect world. This is called the Impossibility Argument. This chapter shows further that the Impossibility Argument is valid on any concept of free will: libertarianism, weak compatibilism, and strong compatibilism. The chapter concludes that theists have available to them a successful argument against the logical problem of evil that does not depend on any particular concept of free will. If God is permitted to actualize a morally and naturally perfect world, then God can coexist with evil. And the logical problem of evil is solved.