Before revision: Plantinga's free-will defense Plantinga's free-will defense begins by asserting that Mackie's argument failed to establish an explicit logical contradiction between God and the existence of evil.
After revision: noting a distinction between moral evil and physical evil (Plantinga's defense primarily references moral evil), thenmoralPlantinga's free-will defense Plantinga's free-will defense begins by asserting that Mackie's argument failed to establish an explicit logical contradiction between God and the existence of evil.