Friendly atheism in William Rowe's view and its confrontation with relativism

Since William Rowe published his paper "the problem of Evil and some varieties of atheism" in ۱۹۷۹ and proposed the idea of "friendly atheism", it has raised many questions and has become an appealing subject for philosophers of religion to discuss it. Even though, as mentioned earlier, friendly atheism has become a hot subject for philosophers of religion all around the world, unfortunately, friendly atheism is still quite unknown in our country, Iran; therefore, in this paper, we try to introduce what William Row called "friendly atheism" and seek to see what Rowe exactly means by "friendly atheism" and then see is "friendly atheism" really will lead to relativism as its opponents believe or it is just an accusation that friendly atheism faced.

Keywords:

_ The problem of evil , friendly atheism , William Rowe , the evidential problem of evil , friendly theism