Resisting Rowe's No-Best-World Argument for Atheism

William Rowe famously argues that it is impossible to suppose that God exists if, for every world God could create, there is a better one God could have created. Rowe's conclusion suggests an argument for atheism: Since every world could be improved upon, God does not exist. The essay examines two ways to resist the argument: Deny that every creatable world could be improved upon, or deny the normative principle that settling for a less-than-maximally-good world implies moral imperfection.