There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse

The Inference from Inscrutable Evil evidential

1. There are evils — such as a fawn burning slowly to death in a remote forest fire — for which prolonged reflection reveals no outweighing good.
2. If prolonged reflection reveals no outweighing good served by an evil, that is good (defeasible) evidence that there is none.
3. ∴ probably, There exist instances of intense suffering which an omnipotent, omniscient being could have prevented without thereby losing some greater good or permitting some evil equally bad or worse. from 1, 2

William L. Rowe, “The Problem of Evil and Some Varieties of Atheism”, American Philosophical Quarterly 16 (4): 335–341, 1979.