Hick's soul making defence

P1: A world with creatures who are free is more valuable than a world containing no free creatures at all because otherwise we would be no more than robots

P2: God created human beings with free will in order to develop perfection over time

P3: Evil allows us to develop virtues such as patience and care, which are needed for perfection

P4: To achieve this, God had to create humans at an epistemic distance…