Filo first begins his argument by stating that if God is truly dominant then he can control everything. He then goes on to say that if God was willing to ward off evil but was unable to do so, then he would be inept. If he is able to avoid it but does not want to, it is harmful. Having said this, Philo concluded that if God truly believed in the well-being of mankind, then there would be no evil in this world. Demea responds by stating that we are but a speck in the entire universe, limited only to what he can see. What seems evil to us now may not be evil because we cannot see how it will end. Once we look at everything as a whole, we must make the connections and understand that with God in charge, everything will work out for the best. We cannot say that God is evil when we look at the world only from our point of view because we cannot see the end goal that God seems to have in mind. After analyzing what Demea said, it turns out that he is unknowingly on the same side as Philo. Cleanthes counters that his assumptions should never be acknowledged. He wonders how any hypothesis can be proven if there is no way to tell whether it is true. If what Demea stated is considered plausible, then we must be able to demonstrate that it can be reality. He explains that the only way to defend divine benevolence is to oppose the evils that are sent upon us humans. Demea attempts to demonstrate that good occurs more than evil, but we tend to focus and place more emphasis on the evil. Philo returns saying that if he admits that what Cleanthes said is true with Cleanthes being less bad than good he must also admit that the evils that human beings suffer are still forever worse than the good. It's very... middle of the paper... there's no reason to believe you can do it. If the character chooses to believe that God exists, he is only creating an irrational and incoherent argument. Continue with another topic about a defaced building. In any normal situation, the architect would be blamed for any complications in the building's engineering. If God created the universe, then he should be blamed for any flaws that existed in it, beyond the fact that God was not adequate enough to create a perfect universe. Ultimately, Philo makes his final point by stating that the world does not exist in a way that would give reason to believe that a God exists. He believes that no matter how many arguments Cleanthes gives, there will still be no proof of the existence of a God which he believes to be true based on the fact that there is no observable evidence.