In this paper, I argue that if the libertarian free will defence were seen
to fail because determinism were seen to be true, then another solution to the
problem of evil would present itself. I start by arguing that one cannot, by consideration
of agents' choices between morally indifferent options, reach any conclusion as
to these agents' moral qualities. If certain forms of consequentialism were
false, determinism true, and if there were a God who chose to create this universe,
then His choice would have been between such options. Consideration of the general
nature of the universe God putatively chose to create would not then license any
conclusion as His moral qualities.