Collins, JohnRoupe, Zachary Thomas2021-07-132022-05-012021-052021-05-28May 2021http://hdl.handle.net/10342/9218In my project, I propose that pragmatic reasoning for believing in a good god does not fall prey to the Evil God challenge. The “Evil God challenge” is a philosophical argument that holds that the belief in favor of a supremely good god can be equally mirrored or parodied for the existence of a supremely evil god. The challenge does this by providing evidence and counter arguments for why an evil god is just as plausible as a good god. I contend that while the Evil God Challenge holds strong in its epistemic reasoning based approach, a pragmatic reasoning based approach will not allow the EGC challenge the same success.application/pdfphilosophy of religion, evil-god challenge, pascal's wagerHonors Thesis2021-06-18