It should be evident, I trust, that the ENTIRE POINT of the Logical Argument from Evil is to generate a SET of propositions, a Triad, Tetrad, howevermany-rad, in which “There is evil” + “there is a God” + [various things about God] ⇒ Contradiction.
That is why it is the LOGICAL argument from evil. Because it purports to find a LOGICAL contradiction between propositions.
This is not an inconsistent triad (no matter how many fake Epicurus memes someone posts):
1 God is wholly good
2 God is omnipotent
3 There is evil
If you want to deduce “there is no God” from that, you need more propositions in the set.
Plantinga’s remark is worth considering here.
Almost all the atheologians content themselves with a hand-waving “there is a contradiction here, I’m sure of it” gesture. They say that, repeatedly, but make very little effort to *show* there is one.
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The argument from evil requires premises which cannot be established, such as
P1: We are in an epistemic position to know that God could not possibly have a justification for permitting certain evils.
P2: We are in an epistemic position to know what God would or would not do.
Note very well that the argument from evil requires establishing a NEGATIVE EXISTENTIAL, that is, it must prove that there is NO POSSIBILITY of there existing a justification for evil that God could have.
Note further that proving this Negative Existential “there is no possible justification that God could have for permitting evil” carries with it “there is no possibility of there being such a justification which is beyond human comprehension.”
The fact that so many people are so impressed by the argument from evil is a sign that it is a very bad argument.
“Taking the argument from evil seriously” means different things.
There is a way in which I do not take it seriously, and a way in which I do.
I do not take the argument from evil seriously insofar as I do not regard it as a strong or deeply serious threat to belief in God, not do I take it seriously as a deep, real, meaningful philosophical question.