Sentient Squirrel Case Study

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In the case, the best defense of God would be God’s making whole squirrel species stronger, and I think it doesn’t hold up. Same with the example, Rowe's fawn, from the reading, this example also shows one of unnecessary evils. In conception, the existence of unnecessary evils is compatible with some conception of God. That means, if a sentient squirrel gets squashed by a moose and suffers unnecessarily before it dies then, there still a chance to have God. However, in my mind, if that happened, it’s meaning that the belief in God’s existence can be doubted.
From the readings, there are two views. According to traditionally conception, God is all-powerful, all-knowing and all-good. If he’s all-good, he doesn’t want there to be any unnecessarily

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