The idea that evil is a privation or twisting of the good may have some currency in thinking through the problem of evil, but it is difficult to see how it alone could go very far to vindicate belief in God's goodness.
To break the record for all diesel trucks would vindicate the belief of Greenspeed's seven members that alternative fuels are just as suited to motorsports applications as petroleum-based fuel formulations.
Le Pen may also be hoping - not aloud, of course - that the demonstrations and rioting that could accompany Sarkozy's early days in the Elysée will vindicate his belief that the suburbs are out of control and even a self-styled hardman like Sarkozy is incapable of taming them.
And what is wrong with insisting on speaking strictly, or wrong with antecedently preferring to support theories that disrupt and challenge rather than vindicate ordinary belief systems?
If you are confident gun ownership has no causal connection to gun violence, either show us the study that underwrites your confidence or let researchers do the studies that may vindicate your belief.
"One of the first things we will do with the two new colossal aircraft carriers that we have just built is send them on a freedom of navigation operation to this area to vindicate our belief in the rules-based international system," Johnson told reporters in Sydney Thursday.
And he told an estimated 1,500 union workers at each of the auto plants that they had "vindicated" his belief that the widely unpopular bailout would work.
By demonising them as terrorists and foreign agents, and pulverising them with tear gas and water cannon, he has vindicated this belief.
The group's president, Brian Harris, said the decision vindicated his belief that states could enact policies that "favor childbirth over abortion".
The Indian accounting group's president, Prakash Agarwal, said the interrogation had "vindicated his belief about the credibility of the auditing profession".
Mr Blair crowed that this summit, the first in which the ten accession countries had been present as full members of the European Union, had vindicated his belief that the EU was changing.
