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The horrific case of Lindsay Clancy raises a deeply troubling question: why did God allow such evil to happen to three innocent children? Yet our outrage over their deaths may reveal something profound about reality. We don’t merely believe the act was personally wrong—we recognize it as objectively evil. But if objective morality exists, what grounds it? Could our recognition of evil itself provide evidence for God’s existence?

Many critics dismiss the moral argument for God by appealing to alternative explanations for objective morality. But are mere possibilities enough to defeat a sound deductive argument? In Part 1 of this series on objections to the moral argument, we examine the key distinction between possibility and plausibility—and why skeptics must offer more than hypothetical alternatives to undermine the moral argument for the existence of God.