Why does God intervene in the world to save only some individuals from harm? See here for an interesting blog post by Anthony Sacramone. I’m puzzled by Richard Dawkins’s argument. To whom is it addressed? He knows that the existence of God is compatible (logically) with the existence of evil, so, unless he’s stupid, he must think that some theist will be swayed by the argument that the amount and types of evil in the world make the existence of God unlikely. No self-respecting theist will accept that. If it comes down to a contest of likelihoods, God wins every time, if only because God is inscrutable. There is nothing whatsoever irrational about this, unless, of course, you define “rationality” so as to exclude belief in God. But that’s cheating.