The Problem of Evil is Logically Incoherent

There is no such thing as a universe that has no evil in it.

Before the creation of man or angels, when there was only God, was there evil?

there is no state of the world, with any evil at all, that will satisfy the people making the 'reasonable' weak version of the PoE. There is always a worst evil in the world, and so there is always something to point to, to demand that God remove to demonstrate His incompatibility with the world.

You've made an assertion, now prove it. I can tell you, as a "person making the 'reasonable' weak version of the PoE," that there is a state of the world that would satisfy me.

Overall, I find your "no state" statement highly doubtful; if you cut out most of the "worst evils," very few people would argue the weak PoE at all. If all the "evil" is an occasional stubbed toe, then I don't think Fry would be a very outspoken proponent of that view. He hasn't, to my knowledge, established an exact threshold of evil below which he would temper his complaints, though.

I also don't accept "the critics will always find something to complain about" as sufficient justification to ignore an argument.

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