The evil-god challenge brings to scrutiny a belief taken for granted by many traditional theists: God’s goodness. Evil-god challengers claim that evil-god parodies of theistic arguments are as reasonable as the originals, calling into question the assumption of God’s goodness. I take a new approach to this challenge by considering how great good and great evil are best promoted in conjunction with evil-god’s character and evidential arguments regarding lost or absent goods and evils. I conclude that the world has lost far too many great evils for the evil-god hypothesis to be a serious challenge to traditional theistic belief in God’s perfect goodness.
