In his essay “Why God Allows Evil” Swinburne argues that the existence of evil in the world is consistent with the existence of an omniscient, omnipotent and omniscient God. To begin with, Swinburne bases his argument on two basic types of evil: moral and natural. Moral evil includes all evils resulting from human action, whether intentional or negligent; natural evil included all evils not caused or permitted by humans. While moral evil such as abortion, murder, terrorism or theft arises from humans acting immorally, natural evil, in the form of suffering caused by earthquakes such as the one in Haiti, hurricanes such as Katrina, forest fires savages or diseases such as HIV/AIDS, results from pain and suffering resulting from something other than human action with predictable consequences. Swinburne's thesis is that God permits suffering because it is necessary to make human beings good of their own accord, giving them free will to choose freely among their competing deliberations. To understand why moral evil is necessary, Swinburne urges us to imagine the kinds of goods and almighty God would grant human beings. In addition to pleasure and contentment, Swinburne supposes that such a God "would give us great responsibility for ourselves, for each other, and for the world, and therefore a participation in his creative activity in determining what kind of world it will be." 1 This type of responsibility requires that humans have free will because we cannot be responsible for our actions without the freedom to choose among other available competing options. Consequently, humans must have the opportunity to harm other people as well as help them. Furthermore, he argues that humans should be expected to have so... half the paper... ng? The answer to these puzzles, according to Swinburne's argument, is that, having significant freedom and responsibility, people must make a choice between what would be beneficial and what would be harmful. Therefore, Swinburne's argument provides the best possible answers to the old questions posed by those who argue against the existence of God based on the existence of evils. As he indicates, moral and natural evil affect human responsibility, both of which are obligatory for human health. In case these propositions do not fully justify the necessity of evil in the world, Swinburne argues that human beings should rest assured that God will compensate the victims by providing them with an afterlife in which they will have a valuable and dignified existence. So the problem of evil is not a good objection to the existence of God.