Ivan asks Alyosha if he would consent to the torture and killing of one tiny child if the act would give all of humanity ultimate peace and happiness. To this Alyosha answers

Ivan accepts the fact that to pay for eternal harmony, children must suffer.

Hick asserts that it is no limitation on God’s power that he cannot accomplish the logically impossible.

According to Hick, the idea of a person who can be infallibly guaranteed always to act rightly is

Hick says that to claim that God should not have created beings who might sin amounts to saying he should not have created people.

Hick says that there is no good reason for the existence of natural evil.

Rowe acknowledges that the case of the fawn’s apparently pointless suffering does not prove that premise 1 of his argument is true.

Rowe asks if it is reasonable to believe that there is some greater good so intimately connected to that suffering [of the fawn] that even an omnipotent, omniscient being could not have obtained that good without permitting that suffering or some evil at least as bad. His answer is that

Rowe thinks that the existence of evil makes it certain that God does not exist.

Rowe thinks that theism cannot be accepted on rational grounds by theists.