Abstract
For those who use the existence of evil to argue that God is not the designer of our wonderfully complex universe, it is enough to show that the reality of evil does not disprove His existence, whether argued deductively or inductively. When asked to make a positive case for the justification of evil in God's universe, it seems to me better to argue that there probably is a reason for it, even if we don't know it, than to argue that it is ultimately irrational, as Rikk Watts does in "Design and Evil" (Origins and Design 19:1, Summer 1998).