cessary as a means to good. Mackie points out that such a statement denies God's omnipotence and suggests that God is not capable of creating good without also creating evil or at the very least, allowing evil to exist. An omnipotent God would surely have the capacity for eliminating evil and allowing good to flourish without any necessary precursor (Westphal, 35).
The third fallacy that Mackie refutes is that the world is better with evil and its consequences than without it. The very notion that a world containing only good would not be "as good"
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