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The morning after Clemson's loss in the NCAA College Football Playoff Championship, I found myself contemplating the problem of evil in the world. Why is there evil in the world if God is good and why do bad things happen to good people? This is exactly the question that Gottfried Leibniz, a European philosopher, tackled in his book, Theodicy.

According to Leibniz, we don't live in a perfect world, but we live in the best of all possible worlds. There is suffering in the world but there is a "sufficient reason" for all of the suffering we encounter. For example, if we never lost, we wouldn't truly be able to enjoy winning.

Voltaire was not convinced, which is why he wrote Candide in order to refute Liebniz's proposition that we live in the best of all possible worlds.

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