If this seems insufficient, the theist can argue that in a world where each an every instance of evil was thoroughly and obviously defeated — so that a perfectly satisfying response to opponents of theism would always be available — an important dimension of evil would be missing.
This too, however, has its tragic dimension, in its illustration of the power of evil to survive from millennium to millennium in the presence or the absence of the gods.
Stephen King and Peter Straub may fill this sequel to their 1984 best seller, "The Talisman," with strange creatures, parallel dimensions and a black house that's the architectural embodiment of evil, but that's just surface dazzle.
The visual power of evil is chillingly evident when Sinbad and Marina find themselves transported to another dimension and a group of long-dead soldiers, realized through computer artistry, rise from a desert.
The problem of evil is often presented primarily as an ethical concern, but there is an aesthetic dimension to the problem that is emphasized by process theism (cf. Whitney 1994).
The Soviet Union was an evil empire; Osama is evil; the axis of evil is evil.
Take the "problem" of evil.
The Varieties of Evil: How to think about evil?
(Remember the axis of evil).
I think of good instead of evil.
