Why would a good God allow horrendous suffering? Why would a good God allow people to go through something like the Holocaust? Why would a good God utilize Darwinian evolution, which has pain and suffering baked into it? Such evils seem to count heavily against the existence of a perfectly loving and good God. In this video, you're going to learn how three important theodicists, Marilyn McCord Adams, Trent Dougherty and John Schneider, utilize a key tool within their overall theodicy. It's called the defeat condition. You'll get an introduction to the defeat condition so that you can use it to overcome tricky problems of evil.