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Additional Readings

• Aikin, Scott and Brian Ribeiro, 2019. “Skeptical Theism and the Creep Problem,” Logos & Episteme, 10(4): 349–362. (Scholar)
• Bass, Robert, 2011. “Many Inscrutable Evils,” Ars Disputandi, 11: 118–132. (Scholar)
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• Draper, Paul, 2014a. “Confirmation Theory and the Core of CORNEA,” in Dougherty and McBrayer (eds.) 2014, 132–141. (Scholar)
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• Durston, Kirk, 2006. “The Complexity of History and Evil: A Reply to Trakakis,” Religious Studies, 42(1): 87–99. (Scholar)
• Gilbertson, Eric, forthcoming. “Skeptical Theism, the Preface Paradox, and Non-Cumulative Inductive Evidence of Pointless Evil,” Philosophia. (Scholar)
• Hendricks, Perry, 2021. “We Are Not In the Dark,” American Philosophical Quarterly, 58(2): 125–34. (Scholar)
• Howard-Snyder, Daniel and Michael Bergmann, 2020. “Evil Does Not Make Atheism More Reasonable than Theism,” in Contemporary Debates in Philosophy of Religion, Michael Peterson and Raymond Van Arragon (eds.), Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 148–159. (Scholar)
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• Jordan, Jeff, 2017. “The ”Loving Parent“ Analogy,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 82: 15–28. (Scholar)
• O’Connor, David, 2013. “Theistic Objections to Skeptical Theism,” in McBrayer and Howard-Snyder (eds.) 2013, 468–481. (Scholar)
• Oliveira, Luis, 2021. “Sceptical Theism and the Paradox of Evil,” Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 98(2): 319–333. (Scholar)
• Pegan, Philip, 2019. “Sharon Street’s Unsuccessful Argument Against Theism,” International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 86: 17–24. (Scholar)
• Rea, Michael, 2013. “Skeptical Theism and the ”Too Much Skepticism“ Objection,” in McBrayer and Howard-Snyder (eds.) 2013, 482–506. (Scholar)
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• Wielenberg, Erik, 2014. “Divine Deception,” in Dougherty and McBrayer (eds.) 2014, 236–249. (Scholar)
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