THEISTIC RESPONSES TO THE PROBLEM OF EVIL: Christiаn Philоsоpher, Richаrd Swinburne, in Is There а Gоd? . As Richard Swinburne sees it, "the free-will defense claims that it is a great good that humans have a certain sort of free will . . . then necessarily there will be the natural possibility of moral evil. . . . A God who gives humans such free will necessarily brings about the possibility, and puts outside his own control whether or not that evil occurs." (Swinburne, 98)