David Hume was an influential British philosopher of the eighteenth century. He tended to be a skeptic about almost everything -- including moral truths, the existence of God, and even the existence of the external world. Here he argues that our experience of evil in the world should force us to give up belief in an all-good and all-powerful God.This exercise deals with a reading from Hume (originally from his Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion) in our anthology (pages 255-62 of Philosophy of Religion: Selected Readings (second edition), edited by Peterson, Hasker, Reichenbach, and Basinger). These computerized exercise materials are copyrighted (c) 2002 by Harry J. Gensler; but they may be distributed freely.