According to Mackie, It Is Sometimes Suggested That "Evil Is

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According to Mackie, it is sometimes suggested that "Evil is due to human free will." Mackie criticizes this position: "God was not, then, faced with a choice between making innocent automata and making beings who, in acting freely, would sometimes go wrong: there was open to him the obviously better possibility of making beings who would act freely but always go right. Clearly, his failure to avail himself of this possibility is inconsistent with his being both ___________ and ___________."

A) omnipotent; wholly good
B) eternal; timeless
C) omniscient; logical
D) immaterial; sentient